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- By: Christopher Mendoza
- LIB 15
- Evergreen Valley College
- Spring 2008
- Professor Blackman
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- Over the years, the internet has been a great tool for movie lovers
around the world. People are now
able to watch full-length trailers, rent movies through Netflix, view
screenplays, as well as print movie tickets at home. However, the internet has caused major
problems in the movie industry such as piracy, and DVD sanitizing. This presentation will focus on the
advantages and disadvantages the internet has on Hollywood.
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- Hollywood lost $6.1 billion in revenue due to piracy in 2005, and it
continued to increase over the past couple of years. Illegally downloading movies and
pirating DVDs are hurting the movie industry. So please do what Puss in Boots says,
and please stop piracy.
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- DVD sanitizing is a controversial issue going on right now in
Hollywood. Basically, it’s about
a group of people who edit out graphic content on DVDs and make a profit
by selling them or making them available for rent. If you want to learn more about DVD
sanitizing, please click on this link:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050418-4819.html
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- Screenplays
- The internet has been a great tool for screenwriters. Click on this link (http://sfy.ru/)
and you will find hundreds of screenplays from your favorite
movies. So if you have a great
idea for a movie, then write a screenplay. Who Knows? Your story might end up on the big
screen someday.
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- Raynor, Alex. Screeplays for
You. 2008. Apr. 2008
- < http://sfy.ru/ >
- Stokes, Jon. Ars Technica: The Art of Technology. “Sanitizing Hollywood, one DVD at a
time” April 18, 2005. Intel.
May 9, 2008
- < http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050418-4819.html >
- Film Metro. 2008. Apr. 2008
- < http://www.filmmetro.com/ >
- Newsweek. By the Numbers. Dec 3, 2007. Budget Travel. 2008
- < http://www.newsweek.com/id/72002 >
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