Originally shared by Miguel Afonso Caetano"So, let's sum it up:
- Lack of diversity has been proven to hurt box-office bottom line.
- Money spent by Hollywood to remedy lack of diversity: $0
- Piracy has NOT been proven to hurt box-office numbers, on the contrary, several studies say it may have boosted the bottom line.
-Money spent by Hollywood to fight piracy: Hundreds of Millions of dollars. (It's almost impossible to find out the exact numbers, but given they spent 91 Million dollars lobbying for SOPA in one year alone, we can all assume what the total comes out to.)"
- Lack of diversity has been proven to hurt box-office bottom line.
- Money spent by Hollywood to remedy lack of diversity: $0
- Piracy has NOT been proven to hurt box-office numbers, on the contrary, several studies say it may have boosted the bottom line.
-Money spent by Hollywood to fight piracy: Hundreds of Millions of dollars. (It's almost impossible to find out the exact numbers, but given they spent 91 Million dollars lobbying for SOPA in one year alone, we can all assume what the total comes out to.)"
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