4DQSAR
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Maybe I'm missing something but how does one institute tarriffs on intelectual property?
I don't watch many films but even I'm aware that Hollywood in the USA is the site of the largest concentration of film production on the planet. The fact some Hollywood movies are partly or wholely filmed in other nations poses an interesting conunderum. Because if a script calls for scenes in Paris, I presume the film-maker looked at the options and realized filming in France would be the cheapest option.
It's true that less people are now going to see a movies but it strikes me that the various streaming services are the competition, not the laughably small foreign film insustries who produce films likely to ever to see a US release.
But on a purely practical note, I'm not a technical genius but even I've worked out that region control on DVDs is easily defeated so I can buy films at quite spectacularly low prices as long as I am prepared to with for 12 months until a DVD is issued.
BTW I just heard that the OFFICIAL reason films produced outside the US are subject to such ridiculous tarriffs is because they represent 'a security threat'. Now it DOES stike me that film-makers in other nations are much more able to criticize the current US government since unlike films produced in the US, the makers can't be deported. But I'm uncertain that so much forethought is a strength of said government.
I don't watch many films but even I'm aware that Hollywood in the USA is the site of the largest concentration of film production on the planet. The fact some Hollywood movies are partly or wholely filmed in other nations poses an interesting conunderum. Because if a script calls for scenes in Paris, I presume the film-maker looked at the options and realized filming in France would be the cheapest option.
It's true that less people are now going to see a movies but it strikes me that the various streaming services are the competition, not the laughably small foreign film insustries who produce films likely to ever to see a US release.
But on a purely practical note, I'm not a technical genius but even I've worked out that region control on DVDs is easily defeated so I can buy films at quite spectacularly low prices as long as I am prepared to with for 12 months until a DVD is issued.
BTW I just heard that the OFFICIAL reason films produced outside the US are subject to such ridiculous tarriffs is because they represent 'a security threat'. Now it DOES stike me that film-makers in other nations are much more able to criticize the current US government since unlike films produced in the US, the makers can't be deported. But I'm uncertain that so much forethought is a strength of said government.
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