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Originally Posted by Rochard
So like I said, they missed the boat... They release them through iTunes, which means Apple gets a cut... The music industry fucked up - instead of becoming both the producer and the distributor, now they have to share their profits with iTunes. Same with the movie industry.
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The potential issue with the movie industry is that you would have have to have one of two setups. Either a centralized service (like Netflix/Hulu) that all of the studios used or each would have to set up their own service. If you have a single, centralized service their will be fighting over profit sharing, expense sharing, development etc. If you have many smaller versions people may not be willing to buy. I am more than happy to pay $8 per month for Netflix. But I don't think I would want to pay $5-$8 per month to each of a dozen different studios for access to their services. If they all had their own versions of the service then the question becomes: Does the service make more for the studio than they get from writing off the depreciation on the old movies?
I agree they have missed the boat and there is opportunity out there for them, but I don't think it is as simple as just, "put it online and sell it."