| reply to funnything
Re: I still dont care! You know, if you don't like the status quo, you can always go ahead and form your own production company and make your own content.
Content costs money for a reason, and that reason is that it is expensive to produce, and the costs keep going up. In this economy a lot of content producers are making less money and some are operating at a loss or break even. It's a gamble, especially when people freely share your content without paying you for it. So they look to leverage their agreements to make up for the shortfall.
The alternative, of course, is a lot worse - these companies could go out of business or lay off employees putting many people out on the street. You think that the entertainment/TV/film/music industry is only the big actors, movie stars and wealthy executives... dead wrong. There are many, many, many regular folks - working class, middle class and even lower income folks working in the industry making an honest living, not to mention all of the support industries - catering, location and equipment rentals, porta-potty rentals etc.
A feature film or TV episode has hundreds of people working on it, and if you add up all the people who stand to gain from it it is easily in the thousands. In contrast a guy making videos for break.com or youtube just has maybe one or two guys and a cheap video camera. One is a profession, the other is a hobby. NO comparison between the two. |
