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Entitlement is in pretending that only the digital world matters because there are people who prefer spending time there.
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I thought that it had been pretty much established that the entire universe is a digital construct...
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If a movie is in theaters it will be available digitally soon. Until then you're free to pay a premium by seeing it now. Ideal? Maybe not, but in the grand scheme of things not much of an inconvenience at all. Go watch the tons of stuff you can see right away on Netflix.
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You are missing the point. The question is NOT whether the movie will be available digitally "soon." If it is pirated, it is available "now."
The question is simply whether I want to wait or not. If I don't want to wait, I don't have to, and
that is increasingly the state of the digital world.
Producers do not have a choice about whether their product will be available digitally. That's up to the laws of supply & demand, and the willingness of people to pirate digital product.
The producers' choice is whether they are going to figure out how to entice some chunk of the black market back into the legitimate market or are going to try to fence people out of the black market.
Fencing them out ain't gonna work, in my view, without a move toward a degree of digital totalitarianism that is not going to happen in the US.