Movie DVD Piracy... Who is kidding who?

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Movie production houses are like record companies. Their only interest is about making money on the back of the artist which has done all the hard work. Actors get paid a set fee when the movie is finished. How much money the movie make or don't make does not alter that fee. Good movies usually recover their cost in the first weeks of being released. Everything after that is pure profit. They get royaulties from DVD companies, television and cable television... and that goes on for ever... they still cashing in if the movie is shown anywhere 50 years later. Now very much like my previous question on Music Piracy... the movie business is exactly the same. They first make their money in the cinema. Then... in the eighties and nineties... they released as many movies as possible on video and doubled their fortune. In Australia during the eighties... a new release on video was costing AU$120. Then... they re-released everything on DVD... and tripled their fortune. Like with the music CDs... it cost them two dollars to make a DVD. You go in the shop and pay $25.00 for it. One year later... you see the same movie on special for $6.00. Now... do you think they make a loss of $19.00 when they are selling it for $6.00? No way! They still make $4.00 profit. So next time you make a copy of a DVD... keep it mind that it is probably costing you more than two dollars to make... while the company is only losing $2.00.