I grew up with Tolkiens works. Read them back to back I dont even know how many times, and I own every book published by him and his sons.
Really cuts me deep to see his work treated this way. I can live with every other franchise destroyed but Tolkiens work is on another level and it really does make me depressed to see this. A real black pill...
This is the end result of the concept of "copyright"; the people who are rich enough to make stuff will only do so for money until so few people are allowed to create at all that they can do whatever shitty thing they want.
if this was for the money, they’d make a better product.
I'm not really familiar with who is in what role here, but the audience is not the people who get to "vote with their wallets" here. Since it's on a subscription service broadcast, all the audience can do is cancel their subscription, which the producers are counting on not happening because there are other shows included with the subscription. Every subscriber is funding the producers whether they ever watch the show or not. Further, if this is Amazon, every person using their shipping services is funding it because the streaming stuff is packaged in with a paid account.
When a producer is involved and bankrolling media, they are the customer. If the producer wants a bad product, they will pay for it. If the producer is sufficiently shielded from the end audience, they don't really have any drawback.
I imagine that saying “every property is up for grabs” would give a massive advantage to mega corporations with the resources to start mass-marketing half a dozen shows at once.
No doubt about it, there should be SOME copyright. But big corporations are going to be avantaged no matter what in this particular category. Without copyright, big corps can snag up anybody's content without compensation, many content makers may not even bother if this were the case. With copyright, big corps always have the money to persaude content makers. If the content maker doesn't sell out to big corps, their family/estate likely will sell out to big corps.
A properly limited copyright is the best option. When the United States was founded, copyright was a maximum of 28 years. Sure, big corps can eventually mass produce the original content maker's content as you say, but the content maker will have time for their work to stand out on its' own while getting compensated, then EVERYONE, not just big corps, will have a chance to make their own version if they so desire, therefore actually giving competition to the big corps.
I wouldn't say it's the mere existence of copyright privileges, but IP for sure. They aren't the same thing. I'm fine with basic copyrights and patents but IP shouldn't exist, definitely not for corporations. It's something lawyers made up and everyone accepted. Take it away and you'll kneecap all the powerful corps imposing homogenous PC culture on the world way more than getting rid of ESG would.
Almost nobody on either side of the political spectrum has a problem with IP so I pretty much gave up trying to evangelize this to people. Instead I just laugh when their favorite works are defiled. This is the natural consequence of artificial government-backed monopolies they support. 🤷♂️
Frankly I'm only surprised that it took them this long. Would've thought Amazon would be following the Disney playbook and have their cast preemptively attack fans for being wacist misogynerds early on, as Moses Ingram (Reva) did well before Obi-Wan Kenobi even premiered, especially as the Tolkien fandom had been clowning on this obvious trainwreck for months already.
You do you, obviously, but I have Amazon anyway - this would literally be free for me to watch - and I'm pretty sure it's not worth the mere expenditure of time this would involve....
We wuz Rangz and sheeit.
Kangz of da Rangz
All black women in movies should be played by Eddie Murphy.
This is the correct answer.
*Cries in Tyler Perry
I grew up with Tolkiens works. Read them back to back I dont even know how many times, and I own every book published by him and his sons.
Really cuts me deep to see his work treated this way. I can live with every other franchise destroyed but Tolkiens work is on another level and it really does make me depressed to see this. A real black pill...
That's one of the main reasons behind anything like this: to destroy culture and intensely demoralize you while doing it.
I mean all the puppet idiots think they're diverse and inclusive heroes but I mean the puppet masters funding this shit.
I’d have laughed this off if the Halo show wasn’t what it was
This is the end result of the concept of "copyright"; the people who are rich enough to make stuff will only do so for money until so few people are allowed to create at all that they can do whatever shitty thing they want.
I'm not really familiar with who is in what role here, but the audience is not the people who get to "vote with their wallets" here. Since it's on a subscription service broadcast, all the audience can do is cancel their subscription, which the producers are counting on not happening because there are other shows included with the subscription. Every subscriber is funding the producers whether they ever watch the show or not. Further, if this is Amazon, every person using their shipping services is funding it because the streaming stuff is packaged in with a paid account.
When a producer is involved and bankrolling media, they are the customer. If the producer wants a bad product, they will pay for it. If the producer is sufficiently shielded from the end audience, they don't really have any drawback.
tl;dr: audience =/= customer
No doubt about it, there should be SOME copyright. But big corporations are going to be avantaged no matter what in this particular category. Without copyright, big corps can snag up anybody's content without compensation, many content makers may not even bother if this were the case. With copyright, big corps always have the money to persaude content makers. If the content maker doesn't sell out to big corps, their family/estate likely will sell out to big corps.
A properly limited copyright is the best option. When the United States was founded, copyright was a maximum of 28 years. Sure, big corps can eventually mass produce the original content maker's content as you say, but the content maker will have time for their work to stand out on its' own while getting compensated, then EVERYONE, not just big corps, will have a chance to make their own version if they so desire, therefore actually giving competition to the big corps.
I wouldn't say it's the mere existence of copyright privileges, but IP for sure. They aren't the same thing. I'm fine with basic copyrights and patents but IP shouldn't exist, definitely not for corporations. It's something lawyers made up and everyone accepted. Take it away and you'll kneecap all the powerful corps imposing homogenous PC culture on the world way more than getting rid of ESG would.
Almost nobody on either side of the political spectrum has a problem with IP so I pretty much gave up trying to evangelize this to people. Instead I just laugh when their favorite works are defiled. This is the natural consequence of artificial government-backed monopolies they support. 🤷♂️
Frankly I'm only surprised that it took them this long. Would've thought Amazon would be following the Disney playbook and have their cast preemptively attack fans for being wacist misogynerds early on, as Moses Ingram (Reva) did well before Obi-Wan Kenobi even premiered, especially as the Tolkien fandom had been clowning on this obvious trainwreck for months already.
Piss off you ugly bent. Regal pose you have not.
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That was quick. Usually it takes them quite a bit longer to get to the "OK, it's true and here's why it's a good thing" stage.
Not surprised. Especially once they fired the Tolkien scholar
Fail.
Why would the critics do anything but orgasm over this show?
It's the fans she wants to shut up.
I'm sorry, What Clark?
Unique welsh word to make her feel special Clark.
While, obviously, I'm still going to pay to watch it, I'm grumpy now and will make fun of it to people on the internet >:(
You do you, obviously, but I have Amazon anyway - this would literally be free for me to watch - and I'm pretty sure it's not worth the mere expenditure of time this would involve....