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Free Streaming Service Challenges Existing Market

posted by martyb on Tuesday January 28 2020, @03:07AM   Printer-friendly
from the check-it-out! dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday January 28 2020, @04:03PM (2 children)

    by Freeman (732) on Tuesday January 28 2020, @04:03PM (#950107) Journal

    Example: Our Library could purchase 10 DVDs at $10 apiece or 1 Kanopy License for 1 Film that expires in a couple years. That'd be a cheap one, too.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 28 2020, @09:14PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 28 2020, @09:14PM (#950237)

    Or, My Library could purchase just one DVD, rip it to a streamable digital format, and share it to millions of patrons! Technically feasible, but you say it is morally wrong? How?

    • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday January 29 2020, @10:42PM

      by Freeman (732) on Wednesday January 29 2020, @10:42PM (#950895) Journal

      It's illegal in my jurisdiction. Feel free to do so, if you're in a place where that's not illegal. Just know that, at some point that's a slippery slope. The movie industry is huge, in part due to the fact that people can make a ton of money doing it. Without the gargantuan amount of money that can be made on a movie like Avatar, you're not going to have movies that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to make.

      Avatar was officially budgeted at $237 million.[4] Other estimates put the cost between $280 million and $310 million for production and at $150 million for promotion.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_(2009_film) [wikipedia.org]

      Even "low tech" kinds of films can costs millions of dollars. Example, Cleopatra

      It was the most expensive film ever made up to that point and almost bankrupted 20th Century Fox. [...] Cleopatra was the highest-grossing film of 1963, earning box-office of $57.7 million in the United States and Canada, and one of the highest-grossing films of the decade at a worldwide level. However, it initially lost money due to its production and marketing costs of $44 million.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra_(1963_film) [wikipedia.org]

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