How do you beat the content producers at their own game? By creating a new model. Kanopy is a streaming service that charges Australian libraries for content — instead of users — making for a sustainable model for distributing content locked by copyright laws. By charging government-backed entities for distribution rights, the content makers obtain the money they are after while the public has limited access to the movies they want to see making for a win-win situation.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 28 2020, @12:50PM (2 children)
Storing masters on celluloid and magnetic tape isn't cheap, neither is transferring, remastering and transcoding them or doing rights clearance. It may be shocking to Aristarchus but many people take lower rates in favor of residuals payable when material is re-released. These are legal contracts between corporations (rights holders) and contractors. So all you actually support is corporations screwing the little guy - no surprise given your generally ill-informed, myopic and self-centered world view.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 28 2020, @01:56PM
My guess is that these contracts would be written in a different way if residuals no longer panned out.
(Score: 4, Funny) by aristarchus on Tuesday January 28 2020, @04:15PM
Your attempts to flatter me will end in tears!