Run movie/tv sites?

[MrDude]

Just a warning to you all, i know some people here run these type of sites. While your under the radar I would quit while I was ahead, the MPAA seem to be actively shutting sites down over the past couple of weeks. I first seen them take movierumor down, now they have filed a lot of lawsuits against watch-movies, 66stage, movies-on-demand, all the big sites, and they all have stopped loading.

Just a heads up to you all, i know some of you might not have seen these stories.

 

[Donald Aquilano]

MPAA just doesn't get it these sites wouldn't exist if they took steps to provide down loadable movies at a reasonable price.

 

[Dorkside]

MPAA just doesn't get it these sites wouldn't exist if they took steps to provide down loadable movies at a reasonable price.

I find that hard to believe. There will always be a healthy portion of the population who will choose free over paying for movies as long as free is an option.

 

[Donald Aquilano]

I find that hard to believe. There will always be a healthy portion of the population who will choose free over paying for movies as long as free is an option.

There will always be people who choose free but I think that with reasonable priced downloads it would minimize it to the point of irrelevancy.

 

[BidNo]

There will always be people who choose free but I think that with reasonable priced downloads it would minimize it to the point of irrelevancy.

Agree -- another classic, recalcitrant case of "they just don't get it". Look no further than Apple iTunes (to see what could have been the music labels) and you'll see what is squeezing from the clenched fist of the movie industry. No doubt driven by lawyers and MBAs...

 

[HarveyJ]

MPAA just doesn't get it these sites wouldn't exist if they took steps to provide down loadable movies at a reasonable price.

You're clearly not thinking like a bean counter here.

You can have a digital download, that will cost you maybe $0.03 in bandwidth and sells for $4-$6. ($3.97 PM, 13,333% ROI) or you can manufacture and distribute a physical DVD, for $0.60 and wholesale it for $10-$15 ($9.50 PM, 1,666% ROI).

You're just not looking at the big picture where one has a clearly higher profit margin than the other!!!

That said, it'd also help if they didn't greenlight such crap movies all the time, and then give genuinely good films the arse.
Me and my friends have a saying, when we review movies to each other: It's worth downloading.