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Originally posted by Mael
what's the difference between downloading a movie and renting one? i'm pretty sure that the movie industry doesn't get anything from individual rentals...
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yes, the get a piece of EVERY rental that's done. There is a back end program that tracks all the rentals and they get pennies back for each one.
Which is how Blockbuster and Hollywood Video can come out with HUNDREDS of copies of a movie, because they are tracked, a percentage of them saved for after rental resale, then the rest are destroyed to keep scarcity.
Even the small mom and pop stores have to keep track of the VHS/DVD rentals because that's how the system works. It doesn't work just this way in the US, but around the world.
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