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1. `Predictably, cinema exhibitors aren’t happy`

2. `With odds like these, the theatres don’t really need`

3. `half of the cinemas in the country are likely to be closed due to losses`

kaka has been listening to this kind of bull shit for sometime. `Research journalists` like Amritaji `documenting` the impact of piracy and feeling sorry for the victims etc.

kaka has no vested interest in the movie industry or the piracy industry.. but kaka is very interested in dumb arguments masquarding as insightful observations..

Simple questions need to be asked:

1. And you care about cinema exhibitors because..?

2. Again, slip-sliding onto the concerns of the theaters and making it everyone`s business. WHY SHOULD ANYONE CARE, WHAT HAPPENS TO THEATERS?

3. Bhy, do closing of cinemas mark the end of civilization as we know it?

WHO IS BEING SERVED BY THE PIRACY OF MOVIES? Ordinary people! Indeed, the light-person and the set-decorator and the ordinary wage-earner loses out if the industry suffers. But really should we care for an economic trend so local and so fleeting?

Now let kaka delineate the positive effects of the humbling of cinema industry. First, anything that has become an industry and has consolidated its input-output flow is never good for the consumers (WHICH IS US, lest anyone forgets). Second, an industry always spawns (and has spawned, in the case of movie industry) mediocre and sub-par products JUST BECAUSE AN INDUSTRY CAN (Pauly Shore for example)! We, the consumers, would like the truly talented and the truly passionate artist to pursue movie making. THIS CAN BE ONLY ACHIEVED BY MAKING THE INDUSTRY UNPROFITABLE ENOUGH for hicks from Iowa (are you listening kutchner?) to stay on the farm and plant the corn. Only the true `artists` who do it for love of their craft need apply!

The movie industry because of its nature of BROADCASTING and finally netting billions of consumers around the world, pays its stars millions which in turn causes them to become complacent and mediocre. Could Whitney Houston or Michael Jackson be in their sorry state of affairs had they been compensated depreciatively less than what they actually recieved? Same is the case for basketball players and musicians. And lets not forget Jennifer Lopez/Eddie Murphy/Jamie Fox, who after being freed from economic considerations, crossed over to music, showcasing their mediocrity and annoying the rest of us. AND THESE ARE LEGITIMATE PERFORMERS. They were just lured into mediocrity because their industries rewarded them outrageously for their li`l song and dance called their craft.

What really gets kaka furious is that, the likes of Amrita and Time magazine and moronic publications like that `champion` causes like these and make it everyone`s business to be concerned about trivial `problems`.

Bottom line: PIRACY IS GOOD! Not that kaka has ever benfitted from it. Which reminds kaka to ask.. where can kaka get the Paris Hilton video for free?