Hollywood's Foundations Rest on Piracy

enrico_suave writes "Wired Magazine had an interesting perspective on how Hollywood has 'pirate' roots in its history, as well as radio, cable TV, and the music industry. Is P2P any different (except for the fact that the industry being replaced has much more money and political sway than ever before)?"

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Re:Piracy helps.

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Are you suggesting newspapers aren't printed with dots? A newspaper photo proves nothing in this case. Can anyone comment on the physical resolution limits of the chemicals involved in film? Are you really telling me I won't get a better photo using a lens to blow up a section of film rather than plucking a section from a 20 megapixel image? Of course it's analog, so making perfect copies is impossible and trying to do it is an expensive quest and hence digital has it's advantages, but the generalisation that digital is better quality is definetley wrong, it's just black and white, no shades of gray.