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Sometimes I wonder how movie studios (and music labels) make money. I watch DVD quality new releases, as well as old movies, via sites such as Putlocker or Megaupload through 1channel.ch. I think they should simply partners with such sites and figure a way to make money with them. These guys won't stop their business.

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>Sometimes I wonder how movie studios (and music labels) make money.

The vast majority of people get most of their content legally.

You mean like netflix, hulu, amazon video subscription, spotify, pandora, last.fm, turntable.fm, or all the ad-supported podcasts and blogs out there?

No DVDs et al.

What's a DVD?

It's what you buy second-hand from your local used media store so you can legally watch the video contained thereon, while giving the finger to the MPAA.

Enjoy it while it lasts.

Considering the rate of piracy in China and India, I don't know if that's true.

The vast majority of people in the target market (i.e. the US). I don't think that the RIAA and MPAA are really targeting China and India... at least not in a heavy way.

They are too far down the alley so much money was spent on fighting these pirates they wont backdown. This industry rather goes down like a burning ship then starting to cooperate with these "rouge" sites. Look at what they do in the US with SOPA that is what they want and that is where they throw their money at.

I agree. If the industry had spent all that money in rethinking and reshaping their business model to something the consumers actually desired, maybe we'd be in a much nicer state right now.

I think perhaps it is a "too big to fail" kind of situation.

If the judge rules against UMG, it would still be business as usual after the dust settles. Contrast this to if a startup were to pull a stunt like this... I'd guess that you would never hear from them again.

These laws are written for entities that are "too big to fight." Not us.

> I think they should simply partners with such sites and figure a way to make money with them.

Oh, is that all? Simply...

They're not one of the sites listed in the grandparent post, but YouTube has a program where they share the advertising revenue. Though that would have been even more interesting if they had managed to do that in this case, because they'd be getting revenue for a something they do not own.

Yes.

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