Comments on: Piracy Funds Movies? Megaupload Shutdown May Have Hurt Box Office Revenues

By: indiefreak

indiefreak — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:04:03 +0000

Film Piracy majorly affects independent Filmmakers, as independent film making itself is a task and after finishing the movie the major task for filmmakers is how to market, promote and distribute it. Not all inde films can be as successful as The Blair Witch Project or Paranormal activity to name a few. Piracy not only effects the small players in the industry but, also major big studios as well and all of them are now trying to fight movie piracy.
With new technologies and other formats such and Video On Demand (VoD) #L3 movie can now not only be self distributed but also these technologies help fight Piracy.
At last my love for independent Cinema can be some up in these four words.
Long Live Indie Cinema

By: GundarkHunter

GundarkHunter — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:04:03 +0000

It's time for the business model to change. Exhibitors cry poverty because the studios take as much as 100% of the first three weeks' take at the box office, which is the rationale they use to justify high concession prices. Studios cry poverty because of piracy, but the impact of piracy is unquantifiable, because the nature of piracy itself is incalculable. Do people pirate for the sake of pirating? Do they do it to "stick it to the man"? Do they do it to defeat holdbacks in world markets? Do they do it because they can't afford te prices of entertainment? These are the hard questions the industry needs to ask itself. During the Depression, the movies flourished because they were an inexpensive form of entertainment; now, the industry is bloated on ever rising admission and concession costs, all because of a wild-eyed grab for "profits above all else."

By: Zinjo

Zinjo — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:04:03 +0000

It is unfortunate that there are no guantitative numbers to compare the downward trend of studio profits to things like story quality, production cost inflation, middle class income deflation and the studio's increase in their portion of the ticket price driving up things like ticket and concession prices just so theaters can stay in the black. Can one blame an increasingly financially poor market to "sample" media before spending money on a purchase for home video or music? There is a greed bubble in Hollywood and until they face it, no amount of draconian measures on the market place will stop the money bleed.
The recording industry decried the advent of cassette tape as a end of them, they adapted and survived. The film industry did the same for video cassettes, they adapted and survived. For some reason both seem incapable of adapting to this new fangled digital age and if they are not careful they may not survive…

By: ethicalfan

ethicalfan — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:04:03 +0000

The great thing about the Internet is that anyone can write anything they want regardless of the facts. The first BitTorrent search engines debuted in 2004. US Home video sales (DVD, BluRay, PayTV, VOD, Streaming) are down 25% to $18.5B in 2011 from $25B in 2006.
Recorded music is down worldwide from $27B in 1999 (Napster) to $15B in 2011. Video Game revenue (consoles & PC) is down 13% from 2007. All of these industries grew for decades until p2p.

By: To John

To John — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:04:03 +0000

You can always upload the film yourself to sites like this. Many filmmakers have done so and have found increased dvd sales to thier personal sites as a result. Unless of course, your films are always picked up by a distributor.

By: JOHN

JOHN — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:04:03 +0000

Makes sense to me that this will hurt those who make films outside the studio system. Wish the studios would do a better job of protecting their own stuff and leave independents out of it. I want people to see my work by any means possible, and because I don't have the funding for big name stars and a studio marketing machine file-sharing sites are just another outlet to built an audience/buzz.