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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 28 2020, @09:14PM (1 child)
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
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_(2009_film) [wikipedia.org]
Even "low tech" kinds of films can costs millions of dollars. Example, Cleopatra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra_(1963_film) [wikipedia.org]
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