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To: Lee Lichterman III who wrote (258282)	8/31/2003 8:31:20 AM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Respond to of 436258

Hi Lee, I'm not interested in stopping file sharing of recorded music, that's an issue that has to be addresses more directly by the recording industry, and I agree with you that the recording artist makes very little from each CD, much like a writer who makes a few cents off each book, the publisher makes all the money... As far as motion picture DVD's are concerned, hundreds of millions a year are lost to pirating and with new downloading technologies, this figure will likely grow... you're right, there is a huge number of people involved in producing a movie, but only a small number of actors make the kind of money you mention... big name stars no longer ensure a profitable picture, in fact of the last 200 theatrical releases with top name stars, less than 50% of these pictures broke even... making money in film is incredibly difficult, so when there is a picture that generates profits at the box office, there is little encouragement when the DVD is immediately pirated and sold for a buck down the street... If a studio spends $20 million to produce a movie, then this picture has to generate triple that amount just to break even, since the distributors take about a third off the top, the theaters take the second third, leaving your studio with the net... Sure, any kid could always break a cryptic coding, but there's no reason not to conduct research for a better anti pirating device to prevent that kind of stealing... Best Regards, GZ