Can somebody explain why SOPA passing would help the movie industry? At all?

[Gmano]

Ok, so we know that Pirates are good consumers and that they consume pay content more often and that exposure in any form is great for IP, even bad stuff.(take, for example, Rebecca Black, were she not made famous by having her song released for free, I doubt anyone would have paid anything for it, now she's a multi millionaire from 1 song.

So why does hollywood not want a bunch of people to get more exposure and more movie connoisseurs running about? The fact that there are individuals who watch 10x more movies, but pay maybe 1/5th on average is still 100% more profit for hollywood than someone who only goes to movies every once in a while because they don't frequent theaters.

(and the lost sale argument is silly, especially with movies, I have 1000+ movies on my hardrive, I've still seen 5 movies in theater this month, (one on every weekend, plus an additional one on xmas), I simply do not have the money or the TIME to go out and see any more, so I download one or two and watch them at my leisure. If I really love it, I'll buy the DVD.

I don't see a good reason to try to eliminate piracy.

 

[Gmano]

Right, but removing pirates HARMS THE FILM INDUSTRY. Pirates are the top consumers (in terms of music and movies). Pirates get exposure out, pirates go out to the theater more often, pirates talk about movies, they do HELP the film industry. Removing them is stupid.

 

[geK0]

They're just short sighted really. It's easy to think "Oh, every time somebody pirates a movie, that's $15-20 of lost revenue! herp-derp!" but a lot of these people might never have paid to see that movie anyway. Most people I know who pirate movies only do so for the ones they feel aren't worth seeing in theaters.

The movies they really want to see, they watch in theaters; they would never have watched those movies other than by pirating them anyway : \
so yea, exposure the movie would not have had otherwise.

 

[Shivarage]

Anti piracy outfits know this, of course, so really, I have no idea who wants this to pass. It must play into somebodies interests, I just dont see that guy.

Stupid out-of-touch old fogeys who don't know what an "internet" is - the buzz word to set them off is "pirate"