Bollywood Embraces Kazaa Movie Downloads

MaximusTheGreat writes "While Hollywood tries to debate how to tackle P2P movie downloads, Bollywood the world's largest film industry has decided to embrace it. This could usher in a new era of legal movie downloads like iTunes for music, as Bollywood, the Indian film industry produces 1000 movies a year and outstrips hollywood by almost 3:1. Theaters worldwide sold some 3.6 billion tickets to Bollywood films last year, compared with Hollywood's 2.6 billion. In revenue terms Bollywood is already larger than the British, Hong Kong, Japanese and Italian movie industry and is growing at a very fast rate."

Comments

No kidding, Spanky.

[grub]

Hollywood has been slow to embrace downloads

Understatement of the year.

Bollywood

[kjba]

Sounds like this Bollywood thing bas a buge and beroic future abead.

Now...

[Fizzlewhiff]

Only if I was fluent in Hindi and enjoyed musicals.

Do demographics factor in?

[Helmholtz Coil]

I wonder if maybe one factor driving their decision was demographics, or the perceptions of demographics.

It almost seems as though Bollywood's perception is that their core Indian market won't be affected by offering the movies online-the original article quotes something like 1 million out of 1 billion people in India have Internet access. So from their point of view, putting movies online can't really parasitize their existing market because it isn't connected. So they can only win-even if somebody finds a way around any protection on the movies, it still can only increase their customer base to reach people they haven't been able to in the past. In other words, even if only 1 out of 100 people actually buy the movie rather than watch any cracked version, that's still 1 more customer than they would have had otherwise.

In contrast, Hollywood seems to perceive their customers as more connected Internet-wise, and so putting movies online will parasitize their existing market. Using the same 1 out of 100 people idea, Hollywood sees it as losing 99 rather than gaining 1.

I'm not saying either or both is right or wrong, it just seems to me to be a difference in how each sees their core market.

Re:my roommate in college

[.!. (0.o) .!.]

every bollywood movie has the same plot

you mean like Hollywood movies?

Things You Would Never Know Without Indian Movies

[tcak]

I might be off-topic, but what the hell....

Introducing Things You Would Never Know Without Watching Bollywood Movies

1. A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating but will wince when a woman tries to cleanse his wounds.
2. If a large pane of glass is visible, someone will be thrown through it before long.
3. The hero cannot fall in love with the heroine (vice versa) unless they first perform a dance number in the rain.
4. Once applied, make-up is permanent, in rain or in any other situation.
5. Village girls who live among cows and sheep have perfect skin and teeth.
6. A large group of goondoos can be shooting at the hero, but he will never be hit, unless of course he is attempting to save the heroine.
7. A large group of goondoos can be shooting at the hero with machine guns, yet they will always miss. Every shot the hero takes from his small revolver will knock down at least ten opponents in a line.
8. If you decide to start dancing in a field, everyone you bump into will know all the steps, and will be wearing coordinated outfits.
9. It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts-your enemies will wait patiently to attack you one by one by dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their predecessors.
10. A heroine will have time to change outfits several times in one song, however short.
11. In the final scene, the hero will discover that the bad guy who he is up against is actually his brother and the maid who looked after him is his mother and the chief inspector is his father and the Judge is his uncle and so forth.
12. 2 people can be dancing in the desert and out of nowhere, 100 people will appear from god-knows-where and joins them in the dance.

Re:India

[Frymaster]

Israel was only formed recently, thanks to a British grant and UN intercession, yet is a world power today.

israel is a "world power" because it is completely propped up with american handouts. the state of israel is the single biggest recipient of american foreign aid. thrity per cent of all u.s. foreign aid money goes there. thirty percent! that's $3billion a year.

not hard to be a "world power" with those kinds of freebies.

oh yeah, here's my source... and here and here