Streaming Pirates Are Hollywood’s New Villains
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Illegal subscription services that steal films or TV shows bring in $2 billion a year in ads and subscriber fees.
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It’s projection.

Hollywood was founded on IP theft of European filmmakers’ work and funded by various mobs, which then went on to lobby (bribe) politicians into changing certain regulations on gambling in AZ, et al, to pave the way for Vegas and the like.

Fuck Hollywood with a rusty pineapple sideways.

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There’s nothing more quintessentially American than pulling the ladder up behind you.

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