What's that have to do with copyright? Are the theaters subsidized by copyright? They surely have advertisements subsidized by copyright. Advertisements, that convince a lot of people, that don't actually care that much about 60 ft screen, that they do.
Most of the people who do stuff for the movie don't wait for the income from tickets dvd-s and whatevers. They get pay for the job they do when the do it and as little and as late as possible. They are paid with the money of some people who don't have a better idea what to do with their money than to invest in a movie. They pay up front and they trust that they'll get more back thanks to the whole byzantine system that has its foundation shaken by the advancement in technology. Same kind of advancement that allowed this behemoth to be created in the first place.
Propping up those foundations in manufactured morality is not healthy.
Not sure what's the parallel between my arguments and Robin Hood. Care to elaborate?
And you're not just paying 'some other guy' - as i pointed out, when you purchase a ticket or buy a DVD it goes to someone who is contractually obliged to pay either day rates or residuals or some combination of the two to the people who work on the film. That's why you see accountants and legal people listed in the movie credits, a significant part of their job is making sure that people are paid in a timely fashion.
If you don't want to pay the distributor, then the distributor can't pay the producer, and if you the producer doesn't get his/her share of your money then there's nothing to pass on to anyone else. Your individual purchase is a tiny amount but in the aggregate those purchases pay people's wages and residual income and allows them to make a living. Stop with the Robin Hood arguments, they're bullshit.