For all the money they make on Star Wars merchandise, they should just give the movies to us for free. They are essentially commercials for all the toys. The more people that watch Star Wars, the more toys they sell.
i.e. George Lucas proved you can make a fortune on swag.
The trick is making swagable films, which is all Hollywood seems to be interested in these days. Comic book movies sell, but comic book swag sells even better.
Which is why when advertisers buy ads for the show, the online ad should be included for free. Why try to sell separate ads for online when nobody's buying? There's no reason they can't duplicate the cable experience online.
Conspiracists will remind you that fighting communism was highly profitable right up until a year or two before 9/11. Fighting terrorism has prevented us from completely dismantling our military.
It doesn't matter how many terrorists there are. The point is there will always be terrorists. They'll never go away. There's no surrender, no negotiations or peace treaties, no final victory, no need to ever end the gravy train of war. In fact, the more you fight terrorism, the more likely it is that you'll just create more terrorists to fight. I suspect we'll be at war against terror for the rest of my life.
The funny thing is, I would pay for a music service like Pirate Bay - probably more than I now pay for music (or even more than I paid pre-internet). If only the RIAA had embraces such a service instead of fighting it.
Of course, it would have to stay just the way it is, with all the music ever made and not just what the RIAA deems good enough for public consumption, and no tiers and gimmicks to try and extract more money from the public. That's not likely to ever happen.
Considering how much Picasso's works sell for, it might be cheaper for an art collector to simply buy the restaurant and just consider the restaurant the frame for the painting.
Copyright was never a real public issue until the internet made it so easy for everyone to publicly violate copyright law. They keep demanding that the people change, but it's obvious that what needs to change is the law. Unfortunately, what they're trying to change is the internet.
If I go into a job interview and tell them I've mastered GIMP or Scribus, they're not going to hire me. You pretty much have to know and use Adobe. That's what makes them a monopoly.
If I were freelancing I might use GIMP, but it's always been fairly easy to "find" a copy of Adobe somewhere (they offer a great discount for non-profits).
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i.e. George Lucas proved you can make a fortune on swag.
The trick is making swagable films, which is all Hollywood seems to be interested in these days. Comic book movies sell, but comic book swag sells even better.
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Of course, it would have to stay just the way it is, with all the music ever made and not just what the RIAA deems good enough for public consumption, and no tiers and gimmicks to try and extract more money from the public. That's not likely to ever happen.
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The whole basis of copyright is greed, and that's where you need to start discussing morality.
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If I were freelancing I might use GIMP, but it's always been fairly easy to "find" a copy of Adobe somewhere (they offer a great discount for non-profits).
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