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Posted by Justin on 09/27/44 11:36
NYC XYZ wrote on [4 Jan 2006 12:28:20 -0800]:
> Roy L. Fuchs wrote:
>>
>> "Bulk runs" As you call them are not burned either. Studio discs
>> are STAMPED. Anyone that would call burned discs a production method
>> ain't real bright, and is certainly pirating (referring to the other
>> ding dong).
>
> Well, since you raise the subject, I want to state again that CERTAIN
> KINDS OF PIRATING IS NOT REAL THEFT. I don't encourage it, I don't
> engage in it, but all this hoopla about piracy raising costs is
> BULLSHIT. For many commodities which cannot be pirated you can see
> that how prices are kept artificially high, whether we're talking
> federal argricultural products subsidies to memory chip-maker's illegal
> cartels.
>
> Piracy is not the reason why Big Studio DVDs cost $20 on average.
> GREED is.
No, production costs are the reason. Movies aren't free. Most movies do
not break even in the theatrical run. Distribution and labour also
aren't free, do you think movies put themself onto DVDs and then take
themself to the store?
> They know it's a bullshit crime, almost as harmless as jay-walking on
> average.
If someone wasn't going to buy something if it wasn't free, this is
true. The number of sales actually lost is incalculable.
> And why are there inventories of discontinued products? Why not just
> sell them?
in the example, Silence of the Lambs, Criterion lost the license. I know
that if I produced something I would make certain to have enough copies
on hand to never have no copies, no matter how many I had given away as
examples of my work.
> Presumably they've been discontinued due to poor sales.
Sometimes
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