It would seem to me, that to the hollywood mind, nothing would seem more outrageous and more insane than letting go of control over the distribution mechanism of movies and media.
However, it would seem that moviemakers who embrace no control would be a greater threat than the renegade filesharers.
They would probably already found a business model that embrace p2p. All it take is for a ruthless media entrepreneur to wreck creative destruction over the existing order of Hollywood.
I'm trying to brainstorm what a model that embraced p2p would look like in the context of the movie industry. For music, it means concert ticket prices have gone way up. To some extent, I think the same effect can be seen in movie ticket prices (though production budgets have skyrocketed for blockbuster movies over time and this also affects movie ticket prices). I paid $17 to go see Avatar in IMAX!
I think the music industry can get by w/ higher and higher concert prices because each concert/venue is a separate,unique product and people don't mind paying for a band they really like. In the movie industry, although there is a small subset of moviegoers who will go see the same movie 6 times in the theater, the product is completely consistent through each viewing so after a certain point of price hikes, I think less and less people will attend movies in the theater.
However, it would seem that moviemakers who embrace no control would be a greater threat than the renegade filesharers.
They would probably already found a business model that embrace p2p. All it take is for a ruthless media entrepreneur to wreck creative destruction over the existing order of Hollywood.