Hollywood has always struggled to deal with new technologies such as Television and the Internet. The film industry have still had not found an effective way to use the Internet for its benefit. According to Michael Lynton (CEO of Sony Pictures) piracy is killing the cinema and nothing good has come from the Internet at all. He stated that, " due to piracy there's less money to make movies and fewer movies being made"(M Masnick, 2009). The reason for this is that it is simply too easy to torrent a movie for free. Some could even say it is just as easy as downloading it from iTunes.
Masnick, M. 2009 Internet Hating Sony Pictures CEO Insists Piracy Is Killing Movie Business; But Facts Show Otherwise, viewed 1 September 2011 <http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091027/1255556697.shtml>
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