Anybody Buy This Argument?

[theknife]

The latest anti-p2p rant - this time from George Lucas.

Mr Lucas warned that piracy threatened to reduce the movie industry's revenues, forcing film corporations to concentrate on blockbusters, rather than also investing in smaller art movies.

This argument really doesn't fly - the movie industry (and the recording industry, and the publishing industry, for that matter) are already locked into this business model....and all we have to show for it is a very small handful of artists who have access to the distribution channels currently controlled by the industrial/entertainment complex.

The increasing availability of inexpensive but sophisticated technology allows people to create and distribute content on their own terms. I don't think p2p stifles this at all....rather it creates distribution channels that never existed.

It is interesting to see the rhetoric heat up as higher profile members of the industry begin to show a little panic

Crisis? What crisis?