Still screaming about Piracy?
by Muhammad on August 31, 2007
in Uncategorized
With the MPAA constantly screaming about how piracy
is killing the movie industry, putting poor stagehands and grips out of
work, you’d be hard pressed to see the problem when you hear that the
box office take this summer passed $4 billion for the first time ever.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that movies are a
social experience. People like going out to the movies if the
experience is fun and good. If there are good movies, people will go
out and see them, even if they’re available as a free download online.
Just imagine what would happen if the movie industry stopped freaking
out, stopped treating everyone as if they were a criminal and (gasp!) actually made the movie-going experience more enjoyable?
It seems quite likely that dumb movie industry policies are costing the
industry a hell of a lot more than piracy ever has or ever will have.
