piracy essay

Piracy poses a threat to the film industry because it decreases the amount of revenue of which the film industry needs to carry on with their business. Also director's are forced to make their films in 3D to prevent piracy, so directors don't have as much control over their own film. Piracy alone can be accessed by clicking on any site like "megaupload" or "viooz" via the Internet, and considering the Internet is accessible to almost everyone in the world, its possible for anyone to commit film piracy or even start their own site themselves.

3D was brought back because of the rise in Internet piracy to stop or atleast lower the rate of piracy. The resurgence of 3D plays a huge role in piracy as it affects the production,  distribution and exhibition of films. 3D affects production because it's more expensive to make a 3D movie and it also takes the freedom away from the director as they may have to change the film to work with the 3D, for example Guilermo Deltoro who directed "Pacific Rim" had to alter the film to make it work for 3D so it would be harder to pirate. This is also how it affects distribution as 3D movies are harder to pirate than normal films, so they can't be illegally distributed. Finally, 3D affects exhibition because the it's meant to attract audiences back to cinema because of all the spectacle which 3D offers, to make up for the loss in revenue from the piracy.

Although the surge of internet piracy was going on all over the internet, but film industry's were trying to make the most of the situation by making websites such as "Netflix" and "Hulu". The sites work in similar says to the pirate sites like "Megaupload" were it is a plethora of  films available, but you would need a subscription to use a site like "Netflix". The purpose behind the subscriptions was that it provided the subscriber with information and could organize their films on the site, also it came in different variety's like apps. This was film industries way of making money because of the lose in revenue due to internet piracy and hopefully  replace the illegal sites.

video nasties essay

Film censorship is originated from the fears of audiences and technologies, these fears led to the creation of the BBFC who is a organisation in-charge of censorship and regulation of films. Censorship of film means that either a particular part of a movie would be removed by the BBFC or the film may be so explicit that the entire film itself gets censored to the point were it is not view-able by normal means. This also affected the audiences as the people that for some reason or another would still want to see the censored film would then go through illegal means to view it, such as piracy. The regulation standards are put forward so that only certain people can view or buy movies based on their age. The reason why the BBFC does these things to "protect" the audiences psychological needs. Although they are in-charge of regulation, they have no control over the regulation of VHS tapes, which means that anyone could watch any movie they want without "government supervision".

The video nasties spurred on a "moral panic" which brought about Mary Whitehouse. She brought it on herself while working alongside Margrate Thatcher to be rid of "video nasties". She had an agenda that basically blamed anything that contained violence, gore or is explicit in anyway was used as a scapegoat for the bleak scenario at the time as there was a resection going on at the time. the blame and turmoil toward films like "Evil dead" or "i spit on your grave" were seen as "satanic" by Mary Whitehouse and shunned through the media as she found a lot of supposed reasons to why they should be out right banned. Such as mugging, thefts and murders that were based around ideas from movies that were acted out by audiences.