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Originally Posted by gideongallery
if those were the prices set by the market competiton between the venues yes that fine.
If that was the price dictated by copyright holder then that price fixing and no.
if that what the MARKET dictates fine, if it what the copyright holder dictates no.
forcing you to use market price determination is not forcing you to sell under value.
taking away the copyright holders "right" to control the timeline of release simply forces them to sell their good at a market driven price.
if thor was release on the same day
marvel studios would go to every single theater chain and say who wants the exclusive right to distribute this movie on their medium and the highest paying theater chain would get that right
the same for tv stations
the same for ppv channel providers
the same for dvd distributors
based on what they paid, the purchase price would be determined for the end consumer.
stop thinking your entitled to set the price and everyone has to pay whatever you say,
that monopoly thinking, competition exist for every other industry.
your new analogy was exactly the same as the old analogy,
you argued that the military should have control over what congress appropriation bill
once that failed you actually went back to a specific example OF a copyright holder
Do you understand how astromonically stupid that is
your arguing the analogy is wrong, because you can't possible make an anology at all.
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Now you are going back on the things you said in the past. In the past you said that fair use should provide the content to anyone who wants it, in the format they want it in at a price they are willing to pay. You have said that if they don't want to pay the price for a movie ticket they can get ppv or rental. If they don't want that they can watch it on cable, if they don't have that they can always watch it on free TV.
Now you are saying that you want these people to bid on the rights to distribute the movie. That would give whatever theater chain won a MONOPOLY for having that movie in the theater. It would give whatever cable company won a MONOPOLY for PPV. What if I want to see it in the theater, but your model means that a theater chain that has no theaters anywhere near me won the exclusive rights? Your MONOPOLY just denied me my fair use rights. So I'm pissed but I will still watch it on PPV. But Comcast won the rights and I don't have Comcast so my fair use rights were just trampled on again. So now I am stuck renting it, but when I go to the one and only video store near my house it is all rented out. Again I am denied because you wanted Marvel to sell the exclusive rights to one chain in order to set a bidding war and determine the market value of the movie. Had you just given in to the pirates and let fair use rule and every single outlet had the product then I too would have been able to watch Thor, but now I am a lowly victim wishing the machine that controls the media hadn't trampled my rights and I am left watching a rerun of CSI Miami....well, actually, I could always just download it from Pirate Bay because, as you say after all, I'm not harming them financially by doing so since there was no way available for me to buy it.