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REVEALED: MPAAs latest anti-piracy move accidentally, completely screws Hollywood studios
(much about VFX industries fight against subsidies and offshoring)
http://pando.com/2014/02/25/revenge-of-the-nerds-how-tech-geeks-found-a-secret-weapon-in-their-fight-against-big-hollywood/
From Marlon Brandos civil rights statement in absentia to Michael Moores anti-war speech, the Academy Awards ceremony played host to its share of high-profile protests. This year, though, the biggest protest will likely happen outside the Dolby Theater.
Pando has learned that visual effects industry workers plan a mass demonstration against the major studios ongoing efforts to offshore post production work. That offshoring has led to the slow collapse of the American FX industry at the very moment digital effects have become a central ingredient in entertainment products.
The fight between the studios and the tech wizards who actually make movies possible is not new. Encouraged by ever-rising subsidies available overseas, the movie industry has for years been shipping millions of dollars of digital work outside the U.S. This kind of work is vulnerable to such offshoring because it can be done anywhere, even if logistics demand that much of the physical shooting remain in New York or Los Angeles.
Up until now, there was little the American visual effects industry could do about this. With the studios bankrolling politicians and protecting their political agenda through the $60-million-a-year Motion Picture Association of America, Washington has refused to intervene on behalf of the workers.
(more at link)
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)When no one in the U.S. has a decent job.
abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)Funny cause a friend of mine who works on GOT was saying that they are always talking about how horrible it is that the show gets pirated and I wondered how many would buy it instead if they had a job that paid them enough to afford to? But I didn't say anything. I've never illegally downloaded anything so not sure the motivation.
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)Frankly I consume so little of the product the trouble and the potential downside (viruses and the worry that someone will knock on my door someday) keeps me in check. Also I think folks should get paid for their work. If everyone is stealing it, pretty soon they won't be making it. They made Game of Thrones unwatchable for me because of the sex, and that is about the only thing I feel that I am missing. Books are better anyway.
abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)One of them said 'It's better than an Emmy'. They do not think it is horrible, they think correctly that it increases over all long term profits.
abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)They were really just imagining how much more they would make if everyone paid for it. Specifically how many more VFX shots they could have had.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)and I am not quite grasping why the MPAA wanted movies to be "imported goods". How did this protect against piracy?
Can someone clarify this for me?
I apologize, but it has been a long day and the mind is fuzzy.