Cinemark threatens to boycott 'Tower Heist' over VOD experiment

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by The Theory

Does everybody download? Of course not. But to imply that few people aren't downloading movies still in theaters because of quality issues or an inability of knownig where to look? Wrong.

Yes, but point was EVERY SINGLE EXECUTIVE IN THE INDUSTRY believes that every single man-woman-and-children-jack civilian in the continental US who owns a home computer is secretly digging up six movies on Pirate Bay every night (because that's what they heard in the news headlines), and "that's" what crippling the industry and hurting DVD and ticket sales.
We've had three directors who, immediately after a bad opening weekend, claimed their films flopped because the "pirates had gotten to it first". Gosh, what an efficient and easy-to-use all-purpose boogeyman--Since neither side really has the slightest technical idea of how it works, you can't prove it isn't happening, now, can you?

I get the same kind of stereotypic tech-paranoid guff as a Japanese-anime fan, and I can vouch: The nuts getting the headlines are a freak fringe.
Those who do pirate do it because of some hacker thrill that they Can, and most of those are indulging some paranoid rebel-without-a-cause fantasy that they're "sticking it to the system". Not that this will stop the studios from looking for fantasy scapegoats.
Most normal video fans I come into contact with pretty just look at the angry nuts as "", and wait for the increasingly inevitable legitimate release. And that's out of those who DO know how to get the darn things on disk once you download them.