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...guys on the retail end of the business don't like this at all. As more and more people have piled into the business, their margins have come down. After paying his "middleman" for a new supply of DVDs about once every two weeks - he has about 1000 titles for sale at any one time - Zhou says he earns less than one RMB per disc sold. "It's definitely a volume business," he says wearily. When I press him on where his middleman gets his product - that is, who's actually making these pirated DVDs - Zhou smiles and plays dumb...
...Granted, quality is sometimes an issue (though the pirated 24 disc was perfect.) A lot of the DVDs available are so-called "coat movies," the kind of low-rent pirating famously (and hilariously) depicted in an episode of Seinfeld in which Kramer agrees to smuggle a hand-held camera into a theater in order to illegally tape a movie. In a coat movie you can literally hear people coughing and half the time someone will stand up right in front of the camera. And sometimes language is an issue. I had to buy three copies of Casino Royale until...
Strumpf attributed that decline to a shift in focus among retailers and consumers from CDs to DVDs, as well as a move in the music industry back to a singles-based business...
Kids can get violent images from movies, TV, DVDs, the Internet. Yet the latest outrage over the feeding of gore to the very young came from one of the oldest forms of commercial communication: the billboard. Ads with grisly graphics from such fright films as Captivity and Dead Silence loomed over children as they went to their Los Angeles--area schools. And if the images didn't scare the young, they upset many parents--and detonated the latest installment in an old debate: Are scary things bad for kids...
...more consistent with our tradition. We do fundraising directly on the site and we're also trying to increase the degree to which we license our trademark for different kinds of products. Some of the ideas we've bounced around would be a trivia games, TV shows, books and DVDs...