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Originally posted by: MeBeJedi
^ Agreed. ^
"the "public library"? There really is no difference here in regard to the concept itself....A library buys a book or a movie and the whole city can read or see it for free."
Did you forget the part about the library "buying" the book? How many libraries do you know of that make thousands of copies of the book available for people to take home and keep?
There are quite a number of differences.
Yeah!! Why if the library charged people for checking out books and videos and didn't pay additional royalties to the copyright holders they would be CRIMINALS... well, or BLOCKBUSTER... or HOLLYWOOD VIDEO... or.... wait... maybe THAT'S why I refuse to rent movies!
( the model is this at rental chains folks: The studios cut Blockbuster a big-ass deal because they will buy a DVD release in volume. Your $15 msrp DVD costs Blockbuster maybe $2. The studios get a huge chunk of change in advance and are happy and don't give a rat's ass about the copyrights from there on out. Blockbuster turns around and after overhead probably makes $2 profit on each DVD rental... and they rent them over and over and over and over. The studio made $2 (time 10,000 or whatever) but BBV mighgt turn around and make $200 profit off of that DVD over its shelf life. Then they turn around and sell it 'pre-viewed' to someone for $6-10. And why don't the studios want a cut of each rental? Hmmmm...??? Perhaps because they already made one guaranteed sale of a product in its 'final' format as far as they're concerned. It used to be different when a mom-and-pop video rental store had to pay $100-120 each for a single VHS tape. The studios could still make an ass-load off a single tape sale and the little store had to rent and rent and rent just to break even... and hope someone didn't physically steal their tape. Grrrr....
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