Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies from Competition

Re:Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies from Competition by baby on Friday May 12, 2017 @05:14AM (#14322462)

> The rationale is that cultural products are "special" and that if they're not protected, they'll vanish and be replaced by American ones that are inferior by nature.

well that's see some bias here.

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Re:Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies from Competition by ebalit on Friday May 12, 2017 @08:27AM (#14323360)

The parent is just building a straw-man. There are multiple reasons for the protection of cultural products.

One is that a country should have a lively cultural scene to be interesting to live in. If you lived in a city with a large cultural scene and another one without, you probably see the point.

Another is that a country's culture is a component of its soft power. Not having a lively culture is seen as being culturally under foreign domination.

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Re:Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies from Competition by baby on Saturday May 13, 2017 @06:40AM (#14330282)

Totally agree with you.

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Re:Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies from Competition by fao_ on Friday May 12, 2017 @08:13AM (#14323267)

You must have stopped reading at that point.

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Re:Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies from Competition by vacri on Friday May 12, 2017 @11:23AM (#14324783)

Do you consume foreign-language media often?

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Re:Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies from Competition by baby on Saturday May 13, 2017 @06:40AM (#14330280)

all my life

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