Elliott C. Back: Internet & Technology

MGM offers Files to Public

Posted in Movies, P2P by Elliott Back on April 2nd, 2005.

Boing Boing and Ars Technica are both pointing at this open directory of MGM presentations. My favorite slide:

MGM DVD Profit Margin

When the profit margin on a DVD is 50% or more, you know I’m not going to really want to buy them! This certainly makes the consumer flocking to illegal p2p more reasonable in light of corporate greed. Apsey has more.

I’ll be updating this later once I’ve finished archiving / reading the reports. Note that there’s a very large and interesting file in the root:

docs_mgm_031104.tar 04-Nov-2003 19:20 613M

Update:

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