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The end of the world as we know it....

  By digitalbasin "Obviously the VCR did not doom the film industry, just as the earlier and even greater peril of television did not doom the film industry. The cinema industry never believed that either of these technological tidal waves would doom our part of the industry. We simply saw them as new ways to bring more films to more people, and thus to enhance the overall popularity of and demand for films?following, however, the critical distribution pattern of sequential release that has made the film industry so profitable and popular all over the world."
- Quoted on BBC News website page 'Digital film: Industry answers', 9 February 2006.
History tells a different story: cf Jack Valenti 3,4; Robert Camplin, Kenneth Maidment

A well stated perspective that should, if nothing else had, put to bed the idea that seems to consistently resurface of new technologies being the end of the cinematic world as we know it.

Mp3, peer-to-peer, digital piracy, file sharing, the internet, downloadable movies, broken DRM - None of things are a threat to creativity. None of them are a threat to the artists. None of them are a threat to the free enterpise. None of them are a threat to art. All these things existed a long time before modern notions of copyright protections and intellectual property and they will continue to exist long after we have evolved into something unseen and unknown.

The only things these technology shifts are a threat to is traditional economic models. The only thing they are a threat to is an established hierachy of finacial flow. Thus the only people really concerned about them are those who fear a break in the economic structure status quo.

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