10 Reasons The Early 90s Were Better Than The Early 2010s

In the early 90s, there were no download sites or YouTube, so if you were watching a movie illegally, that meant you knew somebody that knew somebody who had two VCRs. That was how you stole movies back then – by duplicating the movie onto a blank videocassette.

Fast forward two decades and the sheer availability of pirated films is mindboggling. Within a few hours of its release, any title is available to watch online, and as usual, it’s the little movies that suffer. Films in the $5-20 million bracket simply aren’t being funded anymore, because the reality is that they will be stolen before they can recoup their costs.

Whether you refer to the practice of uploading copyrighted material as “file sharing” or “piracy” doesn’t matter because the results are already apparent. The only projects that excite studios are billion dollar franchises that tie in with books, CDs, videogames and TV shows, making you wonder about the possibility of $200 million movies being loss leaders for the merchandise.