So the Dark Knight has been in movie theaters for a few days now. In the midst of movie companies, as well as record labels, complaining about filesharing destroying the industry, the new Batman movie earned a reported $155.3 million in its first weekend.
Tight security of the movie meant that only one cam version surfaced on filesharing networks – and it wasn’t a very good version at that. What this proves is that filesharing is not killing the movie industry. People will still pay for stuff if it’s good.
The problem comes with the bar being raised so high. People have access to every movie and every album ever released and so they are becoming increasingly picky about what they pay for. It takes a blockbuster smash such as Batman to motivate people to go to the cinema.
With the advent of the Internet, people just don’t bother to watch bad movies or listen to bad music and they certainly won’t pay to do so.
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