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Originally Posted by DamianJ
Yes, can you distinguish between words I say and words someone else says?
So you can't get good music unless you work in a team, is *that* your point?
Again, unsure of the point you were making then. That you need an editor to make a film? Well, d'oh.
That's impossible. I keep telling you that, and history has proven it.
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If you quote someone in your post and put your name to it, it is to make it your argument.
Yes, teams of creative people produce better. Humans work in groups.
No, the point with the editor is that although new software and cameras make it look easy and accessible to everyone, great results are obtained when it is used by a highly skilled person.
In the past you are a 100% right that piracy was a minor problem, it was not worth the bother fighting, it may even have helped sales more than hindered them.
BUT don't you see that there has been a qualitative and quantitative change?
1) the copying does not degrade, the copy is the original. The illegal copy is as good as the legal one.
2) It is on an unlimited scale. Once one copy is out on the Internet it is beyond control.
3) Big Internet companies with lobby groups make money out of it.
So either Hollywood charges $100,000,000 for the first copy , and the rest are free. Or a way has to be found that the users pay for the content they consume.
It will be interesting to see whether the USA will watch their Media industry be destroyed, losing that amount of wealth generation.
China's feature film industry is growing quickly, their films are good, and maybe they won't make that mistake.