Loosen Up, Hollywood Control Freaks. It’s Good For You.

It’s not that the big movie studios dislike the sort of centralized control that China embraces and that the World Trade Organization ruled against last week. “They just want to be the ones holding the power.” But the way they’re exercising that power is getting in their own way. “When Hollywood tries to preserve last century’s business models and ‘release windows’ that restrict availability, it risks missing the opportunity that new technologies present to increase consumption.”