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Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites


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They have entered the phase of crying about AAAA films needing to raise prices to keep up with rising costs (ignoring the mammoth haul Dune and others make on effectively pennies). The middle class no longer has endless dollars to spend on superfluous entertainment expenses like movies and dining out while they're struggling to pay rent and buy food. Initially I told them the truth "we want to honor the the hundreds of people that made this movie possible" but kids have the attention span of a gnat so now we've done the half-truth "there might be a teaser at the end of the credits".

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