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Earlier this week we received a leaked presentation covering the results of a Google Fiber survey conducted on behalf of Warner Bros and Sony Pictures Entertainment. The research was conducted in 2012 and aimed to get a baseline of the piracy levels, so changes can be measured after the rollout.
[...] Drawing on an MPAA formula that counts all pirated views as losses the report notes that it may cost Hollywood over a billion dollars per year. That’s a rather impressive increase of 58% compared to current piracy levels. The research also finds a link between piracy and broadband speeds, which is another reason for Hollywood not to like Google’s Internet service.
[...] What’s most striking from the above approach is the way the studios frame Google Fiber as a piracy threat, instead of looking at the opportunities it offers.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Friday January 02 2015, @09:06PM
You've made the case for movies being too expensive.
Its not clear you've made the case for the 20 somethings not liking movies. Just that they are now living on their own, and having to pinch pennies, like every generation. I found early on in my post college days that I couldn't afford the night out at the movies, drinking in the pub, or even eating in restaurants. A few years later when I could easily afford that, the habit was broken, and I've really never re-succumbed to the draw of movies. I'm content to go to a few of the very best, or watch them on the big screen at home.
In short, you've mistaken cheapskates (sometimes with a conveniently loose sense of ethics) for changing tastes.
I know of several 20s that share apartments or houses who all chip in to fund netflix accounts and high speed broadband connections as second only to paying the rent. Not because they don't want to go out to the movies. Just because they can't afford that.
The teen-somethings still love going to the movies. Netflix is a distant second.
I don't think you can assume huge changes in the culture, without considering cost as a key factor.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Monday January 05 2015, @02:48PM
I dunno man, I'm 24, and I can't recall myself or my friends *ever* really *wanting* to go to the movies. Usually when a theater is involved it's not so much "Let's go see this movie!" and more "Well...I *guess* we could go see a movie to kill some time unless you've got a better idea...?"
I've got a 100" projector screen five feet in front of my futon, and I can download a full-length blu-ray rip in 30 minutes. What the hell would I want to deal with a theater for? That's another big issue that may not have fully hit yet, but it's coming -- you can buy a high-def home theater projector for about the same price as a large screen TV now. Mine was about $500. And that price is going to keep coming down. Merely having a big screen isn't an advantage to the theaters anymore. And they're not getting movies first by much of a margin either. Maybe 3D will save them for a little while; maybe these experiments some theaters are doing with scents and other feedback will help, but that's gonna raise ticket prices too. I bet a lot of small town theaters will close; while the larger ones raise prices and become more of a higher class experience. This Alamo Drafthouse place that I keep hearing about seems to have the right idea...