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Originally Posted by David Marseilles
The box office doesn't bring a profit to most high budget films on its own -- DVD sales, TV and streaming are part of the expected ROI. As such, the risk of making those films sans copyright increases dramatically. To wit, if downloading movies weren't illegal, a lot more people would do it, making box office receipts even weaker.
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Isn't it interesting that the movie industry was originally opposed to the existence of VCRs and movie rentals, believing that they would cause their profits to fall when people realized you could just rent a movie instead of going to the theater? And yet now all these new media are responsible for their ever increasing profits?
Maybe the publishing industry should take a hint and
welcome new technologies rather than fear them.