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Originally Posted by Cherry7
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.
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If you add up all the money that has been spent on lobbyist, lawyers and anti-piracy campaigns
put that money in improving filming and theater broadcasting technology
we would have theaters what have true 6 color video
22 point surround sound
event triggered olfactory events
and 3d that does not require stupid glasses
if a theater produced that quality, the illegal copy would not be anywhere close to the original.
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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.
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maybe the could if they made the experience in the theater better.