Review: A better Apple TV doesn't beat competition

[EmporerEJ]

Originally Posted by RawAlex

The "licensing ass clowns" as you refer to them are the only reasons that there is a flow of income in the movie and tv businesses. Quite simply, without licensing and standardizes licensing terms, there wouldn't be much out there these days, because there wouldn't be the level of income.

Expressions like that tend to come from the piracy community, who point the fingers at people who actually have the balls to try to SELL their products rather than give them away. It is incredibly short sighted to think that the problem is licensing... it isn't. It is more to do with people being unwilling to pay for the products, be it actually buying them, renting them, or paying for them with their time (commercials, pre-roll ads, etc). With limited sources of income, the producers will make a limited product. Nobody seems to be thinking quite that far.

Generation Disrespect: They don't care about how it effects anyone else, they just want their binky now!

I'm gonna assume you didn't just make a libelous accusation there.
I'm all broke up about those "ass-clowns" that are reaping untold millions on product that has been sitting on their shelves for years, and before ANY of the possibilities of these other revenue streams existed.
And, yea, by the way, they aren't sharing that revenue with the other people entitled to it...namely the artists.
No, they capitalized, profited, and wrote down that inventory years ago. Now they are getting greedy.

The deal was......we watch 4-8 minutes per hour of commercials to pay our "fee" for watching the content. The signal came to the house for free.
Now, we pay massive expense for the "cable," and watch up to 22 minutes of "commercial," for shitty content.
Apathy & Greed.

In our own industry, some most of those studios don't exist anymore. So, who's really "entitled" to the licensing revenues? The last guy in the room, or the guy that found the masters in the closet?
Yea, I'm crying for them.
Again, that material from the 80's and 90's was made, profited on, and sent to the $1 a tape sale bin. I know, I bought a WHOLE LOT of it. Now we have a new medium, (again, never imagined, or even written into most contracts, when there were contracts,) and someone jacks the prices to the fools that don't know any better?

Content has a value. And the people should be paid. And they should get maximum payout, and utilize all the income streams available to them.
But I'm getting tired of the "piracy is destroying the industry" cry, as a solution for mis-management, and bloated affiliate payout programs.

Paying out 60-125% affiliate commissions on sales is what destroyed the industry. The folks in the 80's seemed to be able to make money on just films and VHS, with an arcane, and difficult delivery system.
If you can't make money today, it's your own incompetence. Low up front costs, unlimited "talent," minuscule production costs, micro delivery expense, and you can't make money?
Please.

Piracy doesn't enter into it. It's just the bogeyman.