Nice try, MPAA. You and your reverse psychology.
You’re not tricking me to stop pirating so that it cuts your box office revenue at the movies that easily.
Does it, really?
When I last knew, people pirated movies because the shit being shoveled out wasn’t worth paying the expensive ticket prices for. It was also a way to see something first before anyone else did before release time.
I mean, it won’t convince the MPAA any either case, but that was my belief since the 2000s of online piracy. The try-before-buy method was more true for games, books and software. But usually when it came to music and movies, people pirated for keepsies.
Cory Doctorow could have told you that 15 years ago (but it’s not like anybody who needs to hear this will listen to it anyways).
Not going to cinema means saving lots of emotional pain created by the actual cinema experience:
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Ads
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More Ads
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Trailers
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20 minutes of that shit (despite paying for the movie!), movie finally starts. Now this happens:
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People talking during movies
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People watching phone during movie
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People eating candy (loudly) during movie
On top of this, what are the odds the movie will be good? I think ive been disappointed by almost every movie this year, so thank god i didnt watch them in a cinema.
You’re right, that was my understanding too.
Why pay $15 a ticket just for that shit?
Modern cinema is an elongated television episode. The era where it made sense for many people to congregate to watch a film like a theater play ended long ago. Now TV is best seen alone or with friends (or family)
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This literally happened for me with the movie(s) Wicked. I didn’t watch the first part just to have it end half way through the story and be told to wait until next year. Then the second half comes out, and after the opening weekend where a couple downtown theatres had busy double feature special events, Part 1 was playing in theatres literally nowhere in my city. And no way I’m signing my life away for Bezos BS just to watch this. (Does a stream even earn the movie studio anything significant? The theatres get nothing…)
I only bought a ticket to watch Part 2 because I viewed Part 1 by other means. The theatres missed out on an opportunity for me to watch the first one in succession with the second. And if I didn’t watch the first, then I wouldn’t have watched it at all and the theatres and publishers would have missed out on a sale.
If the copyright industry calls missed sales “stealing”, the theatres and publishing licensors steal from themselves by making it difficult to view the full story.
Movie industries version of DLC.
Not the first study to support the theory that piracy actually helps sales instead of hurting them.
Another study showed that pirates spend more on media than the average person too.
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