Quote from: bitcoin2cash on September 05, 2011, 01:55:33 PM

Quote from: Hawker on September 05, 2011, 01:51:40 PM

everyone accepts that movies need a way to recover their production cost and without copyright, there is no way

Did you forget Clerks vs. Pirate's of the Caribbean 3 already? A movie made on a shoestring budget has a higher audience rating than the most expensive movie ever made. Clerks could have easily made that money back without copyrights and without copyrights it would have spread far and wide even faster than it did.

The problem is that you keep equating all movies with $100+ million dollar movies. I don't think that's very fair.

Clerks would have made zero money without copyright. Its the payment from movie theatres that is needed.