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If you want to see a movie in the theatre - some of the money you're paying should go to the studio.

Just wanted to point out that that particular example -which covers a lot of movie income- doesn't really require acceptance of intellectual property: the studio just needs to contract with the movie theaters before giving them a copy of the movie. They'll have no incentive to provide a copy to their competition, and a movie theater that displayed a "leaked" copy would lose business from the studios.




A movie theater could be paid to leak to a rogue theater in a different market, assuming the studio couldn't tell which theater leaked the movie. (Hey! This is a scenario where DRM might actually work!)




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