Gusiluz wrote:
It's a matter of common sense to not support piracy. If indian dvd companies don't sell enough dvds the movie producers should sell their movie rights cheaper, investing less and less in the movies, till disapear.
If you wanna kill Bollywood, keep on purchasing pirate dvds.
This has nothing toi do in how bad are the dvds they make.
Hong Kong movie industry is dead due to piracy. In 1999 they made more than 500 movies. Now in 2002 they made 40, and almost all are dirt cheap made in digital video.
VCD piracy stop sales of legal product and video companies had to lower the prices in a 80 % to beat pirates. The profits were less and less with these prices, and their dvds & vcds were worse, as they can't invest in them due to their poor profits in sales.
So, today, you have 5 or 6 big movies a year, 20 regular butget, and the others are grade Z filmed in video, projected with video players in theaters.
You think Eros will make better dvd if you stop buying. Eros will do other things more profitable than dvd if you keep on with piracy.
Ah, maybe you think pirates will be making your dvds, right? WRONG. As happened in HK, when profits stoped in dvd, and movies started to be shite, they moved to other business like celular phones.
Today, piracy in HK is 90 % less in HK dvd/vcd, as nobody is interested in pay for bad movies.
What you say is mostly true and it's not been my case that given better Indian DVDs this piracy problem will stop - of course it wont, piracy will still exist. One of the reasons piracy (and by no means the only reason) has propelled to such a level is that because of poor DVDs from companies like Eros, VS, YRF, Spark and the rest. And it's utter rubbish to suggest companies like Eros & YRF haven't got the investment to get the picture and audio quality decent on DVD they release.
Again the blame is put down to piracy for a problem that is initiated and flamed by people in the industry - like I've said on many occasion this nasty circle of piracy can only be stopped by investment and effort from the industry, not the other way round!
As I understand Indian DVDs is still a small part of the Bollywood world - and suggesting buying pirate DVDs is going to kill an industry this big, is laughable. Piracy is such a convenient way to shift focus away from other problems the industry is having. Every other Bollywood movie that comes out is a copy of some other film without getting intellectual rights for the content - this is hypocrisy at the highest order - if this form of piracy is acceptable from the filmmaker and distributors then Indian DVD piracy can be justified by the people who are constantly getting ripped off for buying utter crap DVDs and that DVD developing faults few months down the line :rolleyes:
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