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tlholaday on Jan 19, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Pirate Bay's statement on PIPA/SOPA

The profitable companies are not really the creators of the content, are they? Did DC create The Watchmen, or was it Alan Moore?

A consumer-pays-in-advance subscription model would provide better price signals to the real creators, wouldn't it?

bunderbunder on Jan 19, 2012 [–]

Film studios specifically try to organize things so that the company that creates the content never turns a profit.

Supplying a Wikipedia link today seems silly, but you could Google "Hollywood Accounting".

(oh what the hey: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting)

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