Today i just read an article in the straits times on file hosting sites such as megaupload and rapidshare. The movie industry voiced their concerns about these websites because people upload the episodes/movies(might be pirated) onto internet and let them watch at extremely low prices. Basically, their worried because they lose money from this.
There have been speeches that say file sharing is bad, as it destroys profits of movies, that is a bad thing to do and cannot be condoned. However i tend to disagree. When i look in the point of view of the movie makers, sure it's bad, since i would lose money and my wallet would be thinner.
However looking the point of the viewer, it is not a bad thing. In this world there is naturally rich and poor people. Poor people may not be able to enjoy the luxuries of an extremely big hit show, however with file sharing, they will be also able to enjoy it, at a lower affordable price for them. This kind of makes it fair for them, to make up for them not be able to see it in the theathers, dont you think?
Thinking long term, especially for those movies with sequels and prequels, this in some ways actually is good for them (in my opinion). If more people were to be able to watch it, the movie would get more publicity. Also then, when the movie makers released out a trailer, those who may have watched the prequel, may find it worth saving up for, to watch in the theathers. Thus there may be more viewers. Of course this is assuming the people wont just watched the pirated version. But if the movie really was good, wont people want to watch it on a big screen?
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