Silicon Valley entrepreneurs in the Tech industry are very upset about Hollywood's support of SOPA and PIPA. There are at least four things to do that I can see (and I'm no industry expert).
1) Find young hot start ups
2) Eliminate Hollywood's unique accounting rules
3) Build robots to replace union members
4) Disrupt distribution
HOT STARTUPS
Y Combinator wants to fund anti-Hollywood startups. I've got two recommendations for them:
- Red Letter Media (makers of the Plinkett reviews - killer critiques of bad Hollywood slop - a great team with a lot of smarts)
- Emergent Order (makers of the Keynes vs. Hayek rap videos and a few great commercials - a young team with a lot of talent).
ELIMINATE ACCOUNTING GIMMICKS
Next, counter sue and lobby congress - turnabout is fair play. Its amazing people invest hundreds of millions of dollars in movies because, according to Hollywood, no movie is profitable. But that isn't really the case. For 80 some odd years Hollywood has been granted privilege to run some old school accounting gimmicks that hide profits (and would get any other corporate exec imprisoned if they tried).
Basically, Hollywood bills itself exactly what the movie makes. Each little division of the movie making process sends overpriced bills to the other portions until all the revenue is eaten up between them.
Eliminate that and you eliminate the ability to hide profits and you will force them to pay more taxes and royalties (note the irony - they are fighting internet piracy to protect their own royalties even though they use gimmicks to screw over individuals - writers, directors, copywrite holders - in the movie picture industry).
BUILD ROBOTS!
A highly unionized workforce seems to come with the territory when you are a government protectedindustry cartel (see the U.S. auto industry). Movie sets are full of people - mostly doing nothing. Studios must higher union sanctioned catering which has to be delivered by teamsters (Who sit around set all day doing nothing but still earning a paycheck). You even have guys whose sole purpose in life is to hold tape and wait for the director to decide where to put the tape on the floor so actors know where to stand. Build a robot to do that job and start saving startups money!
Unionized people eat revenues and Hollywood rules require you to use them if you want to get your product distributed. So bust the most useless union members with robots and then work on busting up Hollywood distribution..
DISRUPT DISTRIBUTION
Making the home movie experience better will make this easier. Bigger and better TVs, better sound systems, and of course online steaming of any content at any time. I've also noticed friends using Netflix prefer to watch the whole season as fast as possible - so figuring out how to produce and distribute shows daily is probably part of the future (assuming you can lower costs enough to make it possible).
A highly unionized workforce seems to come with the territory when you are a government protected
Unionized people eat revenues and Hollywood rules require you to use them if you want to get your product distributed. So bust the most useless union members with robots and then work on busting up Hollywood distribution..
DISRUPT DISTRIBUTION
Making the home movie experience better will make this easier. Bigger and better TVs, better sound systems, and of course online steaming of any content at any time. I've also noticed friends using Netflix prefer to watch the whole season as fast as possible - so figuring out how to produce and distribute shows daily is probably part of the future (assuming you can lower costs enough to make it possible).
