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Simply not true. There is a subset of the population - mostly teenage and young adult - that is fluent in torrents and places like Pirate Bay and are also clued up enough to know how to burn DVDs or have the gear to stream to different devices. The vast majority of everyone else does not inhabit that world.It would take a decade or more of good, user friendly, living room technology, an industry adjusted to new business models and a population normalised to legal copying and distribution before you can have a clue what the actual effecst of abolishing copyright would look like.

I bet there's whole populations of aliens on far and distant worlds fiedishly distributing episodes of Frazier without paying too. If however, the USA was the same as you claim China and I claim Betelgeuse is, Hollywood would still have no revenue.

Because many people are honest or lazy of course. Are you saying that the Asians that pay Lethal weapon 4, do so in gratitude to the Hollywood capitalists?In a world where no one had to pay for any media and that media was a easy to get as terrestial TV, we would all be like your Chinese pirates; just blameless.

As have we all. It's weird how no matter how often the same thing is said, it will still be ignored or misinterpreted by those who don't wish to hear. Message 65And we're talking only of box office. The industry makes money on the whole lifecycle of theatrical release (box office), first showing broadcast, satellite and cable, DVD, terestrial TV and repeats. Most of that follow-on revenue would disappear if there was no copyright protection.Not only that, without copyright protection, the cinemas have no need to pay Holywood for the film that they show. As has also been explained several times.