[MUD-Dev] Movies bigger than games? (was Re: Digital Property Law)

[Adam Martin]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Crowell" <frankc at maddog.com>
To: <mud-dev at kanga.nu>
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 8:36 PM
Subject: Re: [MUD-Dev] Movies bigger than games? (was Re: Digital Property
Law)
> Tess Lowe wrote:
>> Matt Mihaly wrote:

>>> I remember someone opining that they would change the nature of
>>> commerce itself. Clearly that's a little overboard. Movies are way
>>> bigger than games (including merchandising here) for instance, and
>>> movies are a financially nearly insignificant industry.

>> Are you sure that movies are way bigger than games? I was just
>> reading the rant dated 3/2/2001 at

> The film industry is Hollywood.  And Hollywood is very good at
> hyping itself.  It doesn't matter that movies get made in other
> places or even by less known studios such as Goldcrest Films
> (Chariots of Fire, Gandhi, the Killing Fields).  There are probably
> dozens of film centers all over the world, but everyone knows
> Hollywood and assumes that everything made comes from there.

> Hollywood is filled with entertainment lawyers, agents to the stars,
> fancy cars and houses, famous people blah blah.  Games are um --
> geeky.  And where is the center?

Um...[sorry again, non-UK people] Guildford? ;)

(Bullfrog, Lionhead, and a load of spin-offs, + all the people who
went to Guildford precisely because Molyneaux was there - Or so I've
been told. I may be completely wrong on this, and a victim of hype...)

Adam M

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