[mp3]http://podcast.bogosity.tv/mp3s/BogosityPodcast-2015-03-16.mp3[/mp3]
News of the Bogus:
- 0:26 - uTorrent Quietly Installs Cryptocurrency Miner, Users Complain http://torrentfreak.com/utorrent-quietly-installs-riskware-bitcoin-miner-users-report-150306/
- 5:06 - Senators Unveil Bill To Legalize Federal Medical Marijuana http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/10/senators-unveil-bill-to-legalize-federal-medical-marijuana/
- North Carolina Bill to Legalize Medical Cannabis Approved by House of Representatives http://thejointblog.com/north-carolina-bill-to-legalize-medical-cannabis-approved-by-house-of-representatives/
- 9:23 - Large Study Concludes Homeopathy Does Not Effectively Treat Any Health Condition http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/homeopathy-ineffective-study-concludes
- 13:16 - Wikipedia Is Suing the NSA http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/wikipedia-is-suing-the-nsa-20150310
18:00 -
Biggest Bogon Emitter: Tamil Film Producer's Council http://torrentfreak.com/movie-group-to-kill-piracy-by-not-releasing-movies-for-months-150309/
21:30 -
Idiot Extraordinaire: Andrew Hennells https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/03/10/armed-robber-caught-after-boasting-about-planned-stick-up-on-facebook/
This Week's Quote: "I don't want to live in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression of creativity or love or friendship is recorded." —Edward Snowden
As observed, the only people who are going to be put out by no films being released in India for three months are in the film industry, but the effect will be worse than described.
Producers will see no new sources of revenue for three months, and neither will exhibitors and distributors. More marginal exhibitors will be forced to close down, many of them for good. The same will happen to the more marginal producers and distributors. This will be one contributing factor to a drop in film production, which will harm everyone who makes films or is in the industries that support film makers of all types (and that's pretty big in India, which has the world's largest film and TV production industry). The other factor that will contribute to a drop in production is that investors will be dissuaded from putting money into films for three months while the boycott OF THEIR OWN PAYING CUSTOMERS is in progress. Once it ends, it will take time to attract the attention of investors back, particularly to an industry run by people dumb enough to boycott their own paying customers, so recovery will not be immediate. (Would YOU invest in a supermarket chain that responded to shoplifting by closing down for three months? Of course not!)
Quote from: evensgrey on March 16, 2015, 12:41:19 PM
As observed, the only people who are going to be put out by no films being released in India for three months are in the film industry, but the effect will be worse than described.
Producers will see no new sources of revenue for three months, and neither will exhibitors and distributors. More marginal exhibitors will be forced to close down, many of them for good. The same will happen to the more marginal producers and distributors. This will be one contributing factor to a drop in film production, which will harm everyone who makes films or is in the industries that support film makers of all types (and that's pretty big in India, which has the world's largest film and TV production industry). The other factor that will contribute to a drop in production is that investors will be dissuaded from putting money into films for three months while the boycott OF THEIR OWN PAYING CUSTOMERS is in progress. Once it ends, it will take time to attract the attention of investors back, particularly to an industry run by people dumb enough to boycott their own paying customers, so recovery will not be immediate. (Would YOU invest in a supermarket chain that responded to shoplifting by closing down for three months? Of course not!)
I have a hard time believing it'll be THAT bad. Aren't there independent filmmakers in India? Believe me, us indies would love nothing more than for Hollywood to shoot itself in the foot like that!
Quote from: MrBogosity on March 16, 2015, 04:22:49 PM
I have a hard time believing it'll be THAT bad. Aren't there independent filmmakers in India? Believe me, us indies would love nothing more than for Hollywood to shoot itself in the foot like that!
I doubt it will help anyone much. If India has followed the Hollywood model, then the main distributors are the production companies that are talking about not distributing for months, so no indie films will go through them either. Other distributors are unlikely to have the needed reach to distribute indie films to replace the big house's products.
While it would be good for indies, it would outright kill most movie theaters to not have ANY blockbuster films for a long time like that. I've seen a single bad movie (it was Meteor Man, in fact, one of the worst films Hollywood ever pushed into theater distribution) kill a long-standing theater for good.