Re:Neil Young is right — piracy is the new radio
by sausagefeet on Tuesday January 31, 2012 @11:32PM
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Weren't 2009 and 2010 Hollywood's most profitable years?
Re:Neil Young is right — piracy is the new radio
by PakG1 on Tuesday January 31, 2012 @11:54PM
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Meaning that Hollywood isn't bleeding because of the Internet, the Internet has no negative impact on Hollywood, or you going further, that the Internet actually helps Hollywood information get distributed even better? I'd say the latter. It's so much easier for me to find movie trailers, reviews, and learn about movies I didn't even know existed.
Re:Neil Young is right — piracy is the new radio
by masklinn on Wednesday February 01, 2012 @02:49AM
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Just that hollywood is full of shit when they claim the internet is killing creative industries. There isn't enough hard evidence for the rest.
Re:Neil Young is right — piracy is the new radio
by nekojima on Tuesday January 31, 2012 @11:46PM
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Using GAAP or HUAP? (Hollywood's Unacceptable Accounting Practices) :-/
Hollywood's model is broken because it has been dependent on scarcity of distribution. This couldn't be sustainable forever. Internet fixed the distribution so Hollywood is bleeding. Art is getting easier to access and to create thanks to technology. (this is where we, startups, come in)
IMHO, art will become a commodity. In a few decades, you won't pay so much to watch a movie that cost a few millions to produce. You'll pay almost nothing for a movie that cost almost nothing to produce. And it will have much higher quality than today's movies. Thanks to technology. Like you said, art will survive.
[1] http://the99percent.com/articles/6973/Francis-Ford-Coppola-O...