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Growing up I always loved movies and I loved how it can inspire and delight the mind and heart. I thought it was all about movie starts and famous people. I didn’t realize the business aspect of it until this course and Roger Birnbaum’s guest lecture.
One of the many topics of discussion during Roger’s visit was the topic of file sharing. He spoke of internet file sharing sites that allow internet users to download off of other users any type of file. I can be mp3, pictures, or movies. The latter was what Roger spoke about. He said that it is unfortunate that this is happening and that it does to a certain degree bring down profits and put a monkey wrench into the operations of the movie business. Bootlegging can ruin movie viewing experiences because most of the files available for download are of poor quality. It is usually something that equals a home video because sometimes it is an actual recording from a movie theatre with a digital camera. Such poor quality doesn’t cause any alarm as far as competition but it does ruin distribution methods and certain protocols of distribution.