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Originally Posted by pietrocrazy
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?
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This is not really true. The film industry didn't like *home copying* (i.e., taping TV shows and movies), but were always in favor of movie rentals, since it gave them a huge new market. Theater owners, however, didn't like either.