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What it comes down to to me is that the face of entertainment media is changing- the old ways for the record companies and movie studios WILL NOT WORK ANYMORE- piracy CANNOT BE STOPPED- and they are loosing money like blood from an artierial wound- the world is changing, just as globalization has changed manufacturing worldwide, the studios are going to have to adapt to survive- and it is not a great idea to adapt in a way that insults and pisses off your customers- Itis a short term patch that will not solve the inherent problems that plague the industry- My two cents worth on fixing the problem involve making movies that do not suck, I see more viability in projects like those done by peter jackson, and (though he is now a hack) George lucas- they are not complaining about loosing money, are they? largely because they created a FRANCHISE that people love, and they make a bazillion dollars on the merchendising - look at the release of dvd's- T.V. shows are making great money on this- I guess the idea is not to make a movie, but to make a setting, a place that people can escape to (that is the purpose of entertainment, after all) and capitalize on that- I sorely hope that Hollywood and others are catching this trend, and actually do something neat once in a while......
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