Afraid economic downturn will mean more people will be looking to save money.
With practically every sector of the US economy reeling from the current economic downturn it’s maddening to learn that Hollywood is trying to to take advantage of the situation by warning “If we don’t protect IPR (intellectual property rights), our economic losses will be far worse” than everyone else.
Oh really?
The MPAA has been double-speaking for years, enjoying record box office ticket sales year after year, but simultaneously lobbying that more be done to stem their rising losses due to piracy and illegal file-sharing.
I’ve always noted the misguided logic that an illegal download equates to a lost ticket or DVD sale. Nonetheless, MPAA head Dan Glickman is warning that “This is a high priority issue. “
“If you look at the situation, the current economic crisis makes this problem much more serious than before,” he told a forum. “If we don’t protect IPR (intellectual property rights), our economic losses will be far worse.”
Of all the sectors of the economy worth the govts attention I think the motion picture industry ranks dead last. Instead of worrying about trying to somehow mold the world to suit its own ends it ought to instead focus on its customers and how and at what price they can deliver their product.
It’s precisely the same conundrum that the RIAA has faced for more than 9 years so why has the MPAA not learned from its mistakes?
jared@zeropaid.com
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Once again those entertainment industry goons are acting suicidal playing chicken with the economy.
Sounds like the MPAA wants to kill itself the same way the RIAA did…
Next thing they will do is say they want a bailout from the government because piracy cost them too much such a crack of $4it
Yeah like I am going to really feel sorry for the losers at the MPAA…when they made all the money in movies in the past…. just like the OIL COMPANIES now have the NERVE to complain that their prices are down!
Yet they both gouged the consumer all they could when they could. And now both the MPAA and oil companies want people to feel sorry for them?
I don’t think that is gonna happen!
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=5387182&page=1 Hmm need more? http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081205/en_nm/us_comedies_2 It’s already known that the movie business goes through the roof in harsh economic times. That’s what happened in the Great Depression. Besides any movies I download or stream are ones I have seen in the theaters or ones that I wasn’t going to pay to go see anyway.
Well it would not hurt my feelings one BIT if hollywood WERE to have bad times!
Maybe for once they would see what an average person goes through in an economic downturn. But I guess that is asking too much.
1) you can’t lose what you never had
2) YOU CANNOT STEAL THE ETHEREAL
3) all things must pass