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Sure.

The premise is to bring down costs, and not be free. This is a reality where we can share media we buy, because we own them again.

So you can kind of imagine the world 20-30 years back with VHS and DVDs. Just in the digital world.

Fewer people would buy the content, and less shareholders will be rich. Actors will also not go for multi million dollar salaries. But actors would still exist.

You can argue that this will bring down the number of movies, but most likely there will just be alot of small studios making movies instead of Netflix and Disney controlling the market from start to end.

There will be a much larger varaity in movies, and not that many reboots of past succes from the VHS/DVD age.

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sobchak@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Outside of the “stars” and directors, people working in the film/tv industry already have a fairly low income (median salary for professional actors is ~$47000/yr).

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- themurphy@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That’s true, which also illustrates how absurd the big paychecks are with your post in mind.
  
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LeroyJenkins@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
you can’t compare old VHS DVD market to digital one today. it’s completely different with no physical formats. with digital media, unlimited copies can be made with no cost. there’s no friction of having physical medium. youre also saying to go back to a system that completely failed.

even if small companies came about, they will have no budget if only a couple thousand copies are being sold and distributed for the whole community if sold at current prices. basic economics will just cause inflationary pressure and they’ll raise the price to fit the demand too. you need large companies to make large productions.

having a small companies also means nobody has a security blanket. you’ll be working in an industry where if your small studio produce a poor movie, your studio will fail and you’re out of a job.

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- themurphy@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I think there’s a middle ground. It’s not all or nothing.
  
  We can have million dollar studios without having a billion dollar studio.
  
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