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Originally Posted by DamianJ
No, it was to explain to the fucksticks how SOPA was going to break DNS. Please link to accurate piracy figures. (clue: there are none)
So, the movie industry figures I quoted before saying how good retail was were lies?
And revenue has declined because blockbuster has died? Boo fucking hoo.
And the proof of that is where? In the figures the MPAA admitted to totally making up?
Sigh.
Come on, man, you can do better than this. Show some proof that the huge box office money and the huge retail figures your industry is posting are lies and in fact piracy is making everyone broke. Post some figures about piracy. (Clue: there are none)
Well maybe if they made films people wanted to see, as opposed to cinegraphic masturbation, they would make more money?
So everyone in new york is clever? Are people in London stupid because they don't want to sit through an indy film wankfest? I'd say they are the clever ones.
More profitable too.
What I'd really love to see from you is proof that piracy is damaging the UK indy film industry. Mainly indy films are shit that no one would want to pirate. People pirate POPULAR films. Not crap art house wank.
Show me some proof I'm wrong. Or shut the fuck up.
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You posted the link about SOPA, are we supposed to believe them when they don't like SOPA but not when they say piracy is a big problem?
The figures are in the UK government report of the future of UK cinema, I supplied the link.
Figures of losses caused by illegal activity are impossible to calculate. they will always be guesses. This does not mean that distributing creative material without paying the owners and the creators is not destroying the creative industries. At the same time making some Internet companies very rich and powerful.
Audiences learn and become sophisticated if they are not treated like morons. New York and London audiences I would count as pretty astute.
Film makers that make new and challenging films maintain and build that audience. Directors like Hitchcock or Ang Lee produced new exciting different movies each time.
Independent films are now seen as films costing less that $10 million.
Porn would fall into the "lets make the same film again" sausage factory mentality, more profitable in the short term, but then why buy if its the same old tosh?