The MPAA is so full of...

Garylisk · Post by **Garylisk** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 1:13 am

I work at a movie theater. Trust me, piracy isn't hurting the movie industry. We sell tiockets for $7.50, we get $0.25 of it, and the other $7.25 goes to the movie industry. Multiply that by BILLIONS.

Trust me... There's too wide a profit margin for the industry to even be slightly bruised by bootlegs and downloaded movies.

And hey.. those people that record the movies ont heir camcorders for you do download? They paid the industry $7.25

KungPaoChicken · Post by **KungPaoChicken** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 3:05 am

Toecutter wrote:The movie ticket sales is what makes the money for the production company, who puts out the millions of dollars to pay all the set designers, animators, special-effects guys, etc. Without movie ticket sales, and the sales of VHS and DVD copies of the film once it comes out, the production company won't make a profit, and the workers won't get paid!

Piracy of films/tv shows/music robs people of their income, and slowly destroys our economy. Look at China! Everyone pirates software, music, videos, etc from the Japanese, us, the Europeans, and even themselves! Their economy is so shot to hell, if they didn't have their corrupt under-the-table deals and bribes, their country would've fallen apart just five years after the Cultural Revolution. Stealing is all they're good at, and is the only means for that country to function.

hey, said people get their paycheck and cash it well in advance before the movie is released. the only people who dont get paid are the directors, the producers, and the actors, and whomever is high on the totem pole.

next time, read.

Lo Pan thanks you.

Brsrk · Post by **Brsrk** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 12:50 pm

Garylisk wrote:I work at a movie theater. Trust me, piracy isn't hurting the movie industry. We sell tiockets for $7.50, we get $0.25 of it, and the other $7.25 goes to the movie industry. Multiply that by BILLIONS.

Trust me... There's too wide a profit margin for the industry to even be slightly bruised by bootlegs and downloaded movies.

And hey.. those people that record the movies ont heir camcorders for you do download? They paid the industry $7.25

I never thought of it that way

But then the people who dl it split that money in 2, then it keeps dividing every time someone dlwonloads it, so by the time the movie comes you, you've paid $7.25 for over 100 people to see the movie!

Both of us are S-M-R-T SMART!

KungPaoChicken · Post by **KungPaoChicken** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 2:05 pm

well, my point is not to defend piracy, but rather that it is stupid for the MPAA to try to put spin on piracy to create this great detriment to bottom-rung people that has never existed before.

that, i think, is total BS.

and it is gay.