The Pirate Bay's statement on PIPA/SOPA

Re:The Pirate Bay's statement on PIPA/SOPA by pyre on Wednesday January 18, 2012 @09:03PM (#3482882)

  > there would be no more movies which the pirate
  > bay could distribute

That's not the case. I remember someone once mentioning the Nigerian film industry as an example. Everything there is pirated, but they make their movies with the expectation that they have ~2 weeks to make their money before piracy becomes rampant.

I'm sure that large $100-million movies won't be made in such a world, but I've never really heard anyone respond to whether or not that is a good or bad thing. Do we really need huge blockbusters like that to truly tell a compelling story?

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Re:The Pirate Bay's statement on PIPA/SOPA by the-cakeboss on Thursday January 19, 2012 @12:48AM (#3483365)

Why should piracy just be expected and accepted to the detriment of an industry?

You don't need a huge budget to make great films, but why encourage an environment in which there is no choice but to make low budget ones?

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Re:The Pirate Bay's statement on PIPA/SOPA by pyre on Thursday January 19, 2012 @01:51AM (#3483474)

1. I'm presenting a counter-point to the idea that 'no movies will be made.'

2. The idea that 'if piracy becomes rampant, then there will be no $100-million movies' usually comes up in piracy discussions. I'm asking whether or not we really need $100-million movies. Would the world be that much worse off without them? This is not a side of the issue that I've seen come up in these discussions, so I'm posing the question.

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