| If the music industry can do it... Then why not the movie industry? How about the software industry? Both of those could claim they lose money to piracy. Then your $5/month now becomes at least $15/month. And don't think they won't want more money every year since all of them will claim piracy cost them more and more every year. See where this can lead to? |
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3 edits | Yep. Don't forget the book and comic book industries, the adult video industries, etc... |
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| reply to StudioTech
... I have to think there are a lot of structural hurdles to be crossed for something like this to work. For instance: What incentive would there be to produce today's multi-hundred million dollar block busters over a low budget B-movie?
I think the point you raise about other industries battling piracy as well is where the compulsory solution proposed by the EFF has a strength. Any industry and its members could work toward such a system where they felt it was advantageous. |
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Porn rules... I agree. I think people download porn more than they download music, at least the people I know do. I think most of that $5 should go to the porn industry. Then again, a lot of the porn comes from outside the US... |
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| reply to StudioTech
Re: If the music industry can do it... Would this be such a terrible result?
Would you really balk at paying $20-30 a month if you could freely transfer copies of songs, movies, tv any time you wanted? You are probably already paying many times more than this for cable or satellite, a service that is much more limited and provides you with much less freedom to consume what you want when you want.
Having said that, no one is proposing that movies and tv move to this model and the cost of movie and tv production is considerably different from the cost of creating and recording a song. |
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Would you really balk at paying $20-30 a month if you could freely transfer copies of songs, movies, tv any time you wanted?
They can do that now for free.
People assume because piracy is illegal, it isn't part of t he conversation. These new models have to compete with piracy.
It's not fair, but it's true. |
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