Hollywood as We Know It Is Over

Re:Hollywood as We Know It Is Over by witty_username on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @02:11AM (#13538966)

> I'm not sure that we have a name for the economic model I'm thinking of. I think "capitalism" is too high-level or broad for the system I'm talking about. I'm thinking of the model that: Profit should be made up by charging more than the cost of duplication.

That's the existing scenario/how the world works. The model is an intended effect of copyright.

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Re:Hollywood as We Know It Is Over by CaptSpify on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @10:05AM (#13541211)

I think that's partially right. I think that's more of a leftover from when manufacturing physical items cost resources to create. The current problem is that we've carried that over to the digital world for IP reasons, as you've stated, but it doesn't make any sense to keep.

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