Re:MPAA Welcomes Netflix as New Member
by geofft on Saturday July 13, 2019 @11:08AM
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The book publishing industry goes about their goals rather differently. Comparing the book industry and the movie industry makes as much sense as not buying wine because you're upset about the tobacco lobby (or saying that you can't criticize the tobacco industry if you're willing to buy wine).
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Re:MPAA Welcomes Netflix as New Member
by AndrewUnmuted on Saturday July 13, 2019 @11:52AM
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They really don't, especially not anymore. For-profit book publishing has turned decidedly Hollywood. I've worked in both book publishing and in Hollywood, and people often forget that they are really one in the same now. CBS owns Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins is owned by News Corp, and Penguin Random House is owned by Bertelsmann, one of the world's largest media conglomerates.
Re:MPAA Welcomes Netflix as New Member
by scarface74 on Saturday July 13, 2019 @11:30AM
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How are they different? They both support long copywriters, support DRM of digital media, etc.
Two important ways: first, they're happy to publish physical, analog books, which the movie industry no longer does. That allows institutions like libraries and used-book stores to exist. Second, they've never put a rootkit in their DRM.
Re:MPAA Welcomes Netflix as New Member
by scarface74 on Sunday July 14, 2019 @01:55PM
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Realistically analog books are harder to copy and distribute than digital books. Some authors won’t publish to kindle for that reason. (https://www.quora.com/Why-isnt-Cracking-the-Coding-Interview...)
The movie industry also creates physical disks that you can trade but they have had copy protection since the analog era.