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MPAA's Chris Dodd Calls SOPA Defeat a 'Watershed Event'
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#32Their interest is not 'having a conversation'. They have degenerated into monopolists. Let us clarify the game they play: One year they lobby government to strengthen enforcement. They say: piracy means they are not getting what the law says is their due. (it sounds almost reasonable!) The next year they lobby government to expand copyright. That is: they are deciding for themselves what is their due . Far from the g…
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#33I like how he thinks that Netflix and Redbox are also ripping him off. It's like he expects each person who sees the movie to pay for the entire production. Anything less is ruining the industry. I disagree with this, though. I think it should be legally required for everyone to pay for the movie, regardless of whether or not they see it. That way, nobody can steal his hard work!!
> "I like how he thinks that Netflix and Redbox are also ripping him off. "
They don't, actually. They just know that if they play the victim, they can shift the eventual compromise further in their favor than if they took a rational position.
Suppose a given policy discussion is a numeric 1-10 scale, and you and I are at 4 and 7 respectively, compromise (as it is seen by voters who expect compromise to be a mid-way point) is 5 or 6. But if I pretend to stake my position as a 10, compromise is suddenly a 7 -- exactly what I wanted in the first place. So long as no-one (e.g. the press) is calling me out for staking out an absurd position, there's no reason not to run this tactic.
Re: MPAA's Chris Dodd Calls SOPA Defeat a 'Watershed Event'
#34I like how he thinks that Netflix and Redbox are also ripping him off. It's like he expects each person who sees the movie to pay for the entire production. Anything less is ruining the industry. I disagree with this, though. I think it should be legally required for everyone to pay for the movie, regardless of whether or not they see it. That way, nobody can steal his hard work!!
Don't even joke about that. In Denmark we pay "license" to the state, to keep the public television and radio channels going. Mind you, this isn't part of the tax and it's completely optional whether you want to pay it or not. Except, if you have a television, an internet connection, a cellphone, a radio or any device capable of receiving a television signal via an antenna or internet connection - you have to pay. Af…
In the U.S. we have the Corporation for Public Broadcasting created by an act of Congress. Funds are entirely tax-based and not optional (not even in theory). Americans largely don't have a problem with this due to the high quality of the programming, although there's an outcry of protest every so often.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Care to elaborate?
I think what's he's saying is that it's a bad business model for Hollywood, but it's exactly the kind of business model people are willing to pay for.
If you reduce your price by 10x then you need to attract 10x as much custom to break even. I don't think it's a given at all that moving to internet streaming and ultra cheap pricing is going to be good for business.
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#36why does he make "…communicate and organize directly with the public…" sound like such a bad thing?
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think what's he's saying is that it's a bad business model for Hollywood, but it's exactly the kind of business model people are willing to pay for.
If you reduce your price by 10x then you need to attract 10x as much custom to break even. I don't think it's a given at all that moving to internet streaming and ultra cheap pricing is going to be good for business.
That's not 10x cheaper. Blockbuster or any other brick and mortar video rental shop have similar pricing. Buying a movie and renting a movie are different things.
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#38There's a business opportunity in this article. At the end they talk about digital-to-the-theater distribution and indie filmmakers hooking up with indie theaters. A marketplace portal that facilitated that connection on a global basis could do well for itself. A lot of schlepping, but a very viable market.
Yea, I never understood why that isn't the case today. I mean, they ship the film to the theaters still.
Theaters should be turnkey. Find the space, set up the Movie Market Place (MMP) hardware, make an account on MMP.com, license movies from the MMP.
Should be no different from app markets.
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#39Classic Chris Dodd. Obvious outcomes -- like the 2008 financial crisis, which occurred on his watch as Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee-- are "watershed" and heretofore "never seen before." This way, he can escape responsibility for the role his own actions played in creating the mess.
In fact, the public rejection (if final) of SOPA/PIPA are not watershed events, but evidence of Dodd's absolute failure to execute the job he was hired for.
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#40MY EYES! Thank you, Clearly... http://www.evernote.com/clearly/