Image via WikipediaNew York Times: Dodd Calls for Hollywood and Silicon Valley to Meet..... no Washington player can safely assume that a well-wired, heavily financed legislative program is safe from a sudden burst of Web-driven populism...... “This is altogether a new effect,” Mr. Dodd said, comparing the online movement to the Arab Spring. He could not remember seeing “an effort that was moving with this degree of support change this dramatically” in the last four decades, he added.Say it is 10 dollars at the movie theater on release day. Some places it is 13, some 9. But let's say it's 10.
If the movie industry would move such that new releases can be watched on your laptop the day of the release, how much should you be asked to pay for it? It has to be less than 10. They did not build the home you are sitting in. They are not having to pay for the air conditioning, or the chair. The laptop is yours. The Internet is not charging them for the streaming.
The only thing they need is the production cost and the profit.
I think three dollars. Maybe even two.
They will make more money that way than they do now. They will reach a much, much wider audience for one. They could stream it from their own websites. Ads at that site would be the new popcorn.
I don't understand what stops them.
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