Ah, youth. It’s big thinking, like the meandering, centerless kind NYU film student Geoff Ross has done about a method for digital music distribution called MoviePod MovieBox, that makes a great case for why college kids should stop smoking pot. Geoff wants to build a digital film distribution system that’s like iTunes Music Store for movies, basically, and while is ideas are fine, technologically, he never quite explains to us how the movie industry will shake off fifty years of encrusted paranoia to embrace something as piratey as digital distribution. The MPAA is old, Geoff, and sort of sketched out by change and new ideas, and they won’t deliver movies over the internet for the same reason you can’t convince your dealer to deliver to you: it’s a good idea, but why should he have to change when you keep buying his product?
Besides, even if Apple or someone wanted to get in the movie business, the MPAA would just pull the same sort of bullshit scare tactic/price hike/DRM customer cockpunch game that the music industry continues to do, despite the fact that people want to buy their product for a fair price/use.
Ugh! I’m sorry I’m so pissy this morning. My bodega was out of papers.
