In 1995, pirated CDs were just becoming prevalent and were relatively common in the southern coastal areas and relatively rare in the north.
This is a very interesting phenomenon, because the development of science and technology first gave birth to the piracy industry.
In Xiangjiang and Baodao, the cost of making a pirated disc is very cheap, less than one yuan, plus the cost of ripping and transporting, it will not exceed one and a half yuan, and if it is smuggled to the mainland, it can be bought for more than five or six yuan.
The profit margins for pirated CDs are considerable, and the more smuggled they are, the cheaper the cost and the more profitable they are.
In the beginning, pirates from Hong Kong and Taiwan did not know what the mainland people liked about movies, and the number of discs smuggled in through fishing boats was staggering but varied, ranging from kung fu movies in Hong Kong to Hollywood blockbusters, as well as a large number of literary films.
However, it is still dominated by Xiangjiang's entertainment films.
Subsequently, they found that the demand for entertainment films among the people in the mainland was hot, and a disc could be sold for eight yuan, while literary films were not popular and could not be sold at a high price.
In particular, American blockbusters are the most popular among the people in the mainland, and a single disc can even exceed 10 yuan.
Before the introduction of Hollywood blockbusters in China, these films had already been screened in Xiangjiang and Baodao, so the subtitles of the pirated discs smuggled in were in traditional Chinese characters, and the dubbing was mainly in Cantonese.
In this way, the pirates set their sights on Hollywood.
On the one hand, they keep track of the latest developments in Hollywood blockbusters, and on the other hand, they provide domestic audiences with a review of American films.
That is, the movies previously shot in the United States were ripped into CDs and shipped to the mainland.
Including almost all the classic blockbusters in the United States from the thirties and forties to the seventies and eighties, this is equivalent to doing a popularization of American movies for the people in China.
For the people in China, even the old American movies of the thirties seem new to them.
Because they haven't had access to this kind of film before.
In China, watching movies is basically through cinemas and television, and it is difficult to see large quantities of foreign films of all genres, especially horror and erotica.
This kind of film also exists in China, but ordinary people can't see it, and it's called internal reference film.
That is, the meaning of "internal reference", which can only be viewed by officials or insiders who work in film, with a certain academic color, and can sometimes be seen by art school students.
The advent of pirated discs has broken down this boundary.
Ordinary people can watch foreign movies through a TV set and a VCD player, plus a disc bought for five yuan, which brings a strong ideological impact.
In the past, there were few passion scenes in domestic films, but they can be seen everywhere in foreign films.
There is also an erotic film, commonly known as Mao, film, pirate in China found that the market for this kind of film is not lower than that of Hollywood blockbusters, and can be sold at a high price, so a large number of Mao, films flow into China.
While pirated CDs enrich the entertainment life of ordinary people, they also bring about many social and ideological problems.
Pirates will not judge the quality of films, they will rip whatever makes money, and these movies will inevitably affect the people in China, and young people will be the most affected.
In order to extract profits, pirates go to great lengths.
In the past, they set up their dens for the manufacture of pirated discs in Xiangjiang and Southeast Asia, but later found that the risk of smuggling was too great and could easily be detected by the customs, so they moved the dens to the coastal areas of the interior.
From secretly filming in theaters, to transcribing into discs, and then distributing to retailers everywhere, a complete industrial chain has been formed.
What Lin Zixuan saw on the streets of the capital was just a corner of this huge sales network.
Seeing that the true lie is so popular in China, pirates will naturally not let go of this opportunity, and within a few days they will spread out pirated CDs and sell them in major cities across the country.
This will naturally affect the box office of the true lie in China, but in the face of low-quality gun discs, some people still choose to watch them in theaters, and the magic of Hollywood blockbusters can be seen.
Lin Zixuan is worried about whether he will become a target for pirates when he is released at the end of the year.
What to do if piracy occurs.
At this time, pirates have not yet targeted domestic films, which is not to say that they are very patriotic, so they do not pirate in order to support domestic films, mainly because they can't watch domestic movies.
You think, even the audience doesn't want to watch a movie, even if it's pirated, it can't be sold.
In China, only the films of internationally influential directors like Zhang Yimou are worth their hands, what they make money and pirate has nothing to do with patriotism.
Party A and Party B caught the pirates off guard, they didn't expect the film to be a box office hit.
It was a little late for them to react, only piracy appeared in many cities in the south, and there were very few in the capital, which is also the reason why Party A and Party B achieved such a high box office in the capital.
However, Feng Xiaogang's next film will not be so lucky, and it will presumably become a target for pirates.
The only thing that makes Lin Zixuan happy is that VCD players are not so popular now, and the quality of the gun version of the disc is not high, and the picture quality is not clear enough, which affects the viewing effect.
Once the VCD player is updated and becomes a DVD player, that kind of super automatic error correction function will make pirated discs popular.
Lin Zixuan and Mu Zhiyuan talked about this topic.
One of Mu Zhiyuan's job functions is to be responsible for the publication, reproduction, and distribution management of audio-visual products.
The government has not paid enough attention to pirated CDs, and the domestic copyright awareness is still very weak, and the law is not perfect enough, let alone cracking down.
For example, if you catch a person who sells pirated CDs on the street, how can you punish them, confiscate the discs, fine some money, and you can't be caught and imprisoned for several years.
Even if you are a pirate, there will be no punishment that is too severe.
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If he is really punished for bankrupting or life imprisonment, it is still a bit of a deterrent, otherwise it will not have much effect.
Driven by huge interests, they will not stop piracy.
Only when the state really attaches importance to it, standardizes the legal system, and carries out a nationwide crackdown will we be able to achieve results.
It is foreseeable that in the future, domestic films will not only have to deal with the invasion of Hollywood blockbusters, but also face the box office losses caused by piracy, and they can only move forward with difficulty.
Piracy will gradually become a stubborn problem in the domestic film industry.
Interestingly, many consumers of pirated movies think that piracy itself is immoral, but no one thinks that it is normal for them to buy pirated discs.
This is a problem that the entire film industry needs to face, and Lin Zixuan has no good way, which requires a higher level of intervention.
What he has to do now is to make the movie first, and then solve the problem when he encounters it, and take it step by step. t1706231537: