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One upon a time, movies were released in different countries at different times. This could be done because there was no easy way to copy and store away a movie. If you lived in Italy, you could wait up to two years before you saw a popular movie. Then two things happened: it became easy to copy and store movies; and everybody in the world suddenly became interconnected. The regional segregation has ended: the only ones to believe that it's still there are the dinosaurs from a past era.
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Netflix: The Crumbling Borders of Geolocation and the Thieves Who Happily Pay for What They "Steal"
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2015, @06:43PM
To us it looks like they don't even want to make money
You dont think hollywood accounting works by magic do you?
JMS: The show, all in, cost about $110 million to make. Each year of its original run, we know it showed a profit because they TOLD us so. And in one case, they actually showed us the figures. It's now been on the air worldwide for ten years. There's been merchandise, syndication, cable, books, you name it. The DVDs grossed roughly half a BILLION dollars (and that was just after they put out S5, without all of the S5 sales in). So what does my last profit statement say? We're $80 million in the red. Basically, by the terms of my contract, if a set on a WB movie burns down in Botswana, they can charge it against B5's profits.
They need 'loss' to offset the profit. To make it look like the whole thing is run at a loss.
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Tuesday June 09 2015, @07:31PM
Always upvote JMS.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 2) by tibman on Tuesday June 09 2015, @08:09PM
I'm actually rewatching B5 right now : ) Such a great show.
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