Popcorn Time is giving away Hollywood’s most valuable content for free, and making that piracy easier than ever.
MoviePass Works. Why Is Hollywood So ‘Meh’?
“If we’re doubling the frequency of the customers who’ve been abandoning you, you’d think they’d cut us in on some of your increased profits.”
Unlocking the commons
"The most powerful and interesting media model will remain raising money from members who don't just permit but <em>insist</em> that the product be given away for free."
How Capitalism Incentivizes the Destruction of Art
Capitalism is supposed to encourage innovation. But in Hollywood, studios are creating a narrower range of films to avoid taking any risk at all.
Solidarity Cinema
We believe liberatory media should be as free as the future we struggle toward. We’ll do our best to collectively update and maintain the library and catalog. For now the catalog is updated occasionally, but films are added regularly.
The definitive story of how a controversial Florida businessman blew up MoviePass and burned hundreds of millions
MoviePass revolutionized the movie-theater business, which now embraces movie-ticket subscriptions. In the process, the company imploded.
Netflix and the Hollywood End Game
Netflix is driving the Hollywood end game, likely confident it can increase the value of IP, and fend off YouTube.
Star Script Doctor Damon Lindelof Explains the New Rules of Blockbuster Screenwriting
“We live in a commercial world, where you’ve gotta come up with ‘trailer moments.’”
It's Time to End our Subscription Addiction
Can the media survive the inevitable horrors of 2025?
Why MoviePass really failed
An industry-shaking idea, and a company that flew directly into the sun
Piracy is Theft? Ridiculous. Lost Sales? They Don't Exist, Says Minecraft Creator * TorrentFreak
The "piracy is stealing" argument raises its head in the media every week and is on the lips of anti-piracy outfits and copyright holders every day. To them, every unauthorized copy is a lost sale and another small dent in the company spreadsheet which, when added to a million others, will destroy it bit by bit. To the maker of Minecraft, however, its an opportunity. Piracy is theft? You must be kidding. Lost sales? They don't exist.
Pluto TV protected in Paramount/WBD consent decree | Advanced Television
News has emerged that the settlement of state attorneys generals’ anti-trust lawsuit over the proposed merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) includes a provision ensuring that Paramount will keep Pluto TV (or an equivalent free, ad-supported streaming service) active for the next five years.
A Generation of Hip-Hop Was Given Away for Free. Can It Be Archived?
They won't be lost to fire, like much of the Universal Music catalog, but who will save the mixtapes?
The Surprising History of Copyright and The Promise of a Post-Copyright World – Question Copyright
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Nightshade: Protecting Copyright
Interoperability and the W3C: Defending the Future from the Present
Imagine a new, disruptive company figured out a way to let hundreds of people watch a single purchased copy of a movie, even though the rightsholders who made that movie objected. The new company
Pluralistic: Copyright won't solve creators' Generative AI problem (09 Feb 2023)
The media spectacle of generative AI (in which AI companies' breathless claims of their software's sorcerous powers are endlessly repeated) has understandably alarmed many creative workers, a group that's already traumatized by extractive abuse by media and tech companies.