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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by tomp on Thursday May 23, 2019 @04:34PM (#19995618)
On the third end of the spectrum, there's the crowdfunding model. Alternatively, we could only have "free non-commercial use" - so that if you make money from the movie (e.g. a movie theatre) you'd need to pay royalties... so people could either pay to see it in the cinema, or download free and watch at home... i.e. same as the de facto status quo. (Personally, I don't understand why people go to the cinema - I prefer to watch movies at home even if cinema was free - but some people still seem to like going...)
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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by scarface74 on Thursday May 23, 2019 @04:48PM (#19995751)
Yes because “crowd funding” is going to raise the $5 million it took to make “Get Out” let alone the $356 million it took to make “Avengers Endgame”.
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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by 0815test on Thursday May 23, 2019 @06:01PM (#19996460)
Crowdfunding is not inherently limited in scale. If it can raise $5k $50k or $500k, there's no reason to think it couldn't raise $5M. Or even $350M for that matter. The reason these projects aren't being funded is because they're basically uneconomic to make in the first place; by forcing people to pay for content instead of releasing it for free (effectively a price floor!) the proprietary market has to compete by "gold-plating" the stuff and wasting away any potential gains in efficiency.

Compare U.S. airlines before deregulation got rid of the price floors there. Incredibly appealing service, with great waiting areas at the airport, gourmet meals in-flight, young attractive air-hostesses, and so on and so forth - but only if you could afford it in the first place! Behind all that luxury, we were actually seeing rampant wastage of resources.

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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by scarface74 on Thursday May 23, 2019 @10:21PM (#19997936)
I specifically called out “Get Out” for that reason. It definitely wasn’t “gold plated”. It was made on a budget of $5 million and grossed $285 million and got great reviews.
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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by cercatrova on Friday May 24, 2019 @12:50AM (#19998587)
Look at Star Citizen, it has raised over 200 million now.
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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by scarface74 on Friday May 24, 2019 @07:38AM (#20000456)
Not exactly a ringing endorsement of crowd funding from the consumers perspective. It’s already 5 years late.
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