Of course it sucks when you have to watch ads just after having had to pay a good deal of cash for the right to watch a movie. But I don't think the cinemas would survive without the ads - since most of the ticket price goes directly to the distributor.
Here at least (germany), the cinemas live on the ads, popcorn and cola - not on the movies. It's a neccessary evil, and completely unrelated to the copyright issue.
Sadly, I think you're completely correct. That doesn't make it right though. Besides, I doubt theatres are the ones who are pushed this law through. My money's on the MPAA. Even if I didn't pirate for the ads in the theatres, I'd pirate for the unskippable previews that are on some DVDs now.
Usually only 50-70% of the ticket price goes back to the distributor. However, movie theaters are expensive to run, thus the high prices on everything.
Ambient lighting, 400 speakers per theater, air conditioning, outdoor lights, projectors running over twelve hours a day every day of the year . ..
I have a friend that works at a Regal theater (part of a chain of theaters) and he says (while giving me free movie tickets) that concessions (popcorn, candy, whatever) is what keeps the movie theater running. The ticket sales pay for the movie theater's bill to rent the cans of film, and to supplement the income, they also show ads here too because they get more greedy. It's all about the money.
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I personally pledge to download and share one movie for every commercial that I see in a movie theater.
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Here at least (germany), the cinemas live on the ads, popcorn and cola - not on the movies. It's a neccessary evil, and completely unrelated to the copyright issue.
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Ambient lighting, 400 speakers per theater, air conditioning, outdoor lights, projectors running over twelve hours a day every day of the year . .
Not cheap to run.
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