Tim May: > People would go to theaters to see the film in all of its glory, true. > > But the theaters would no longer, in your scenario, have to fork over > money to the studios. > > (Or that theaters would face special regulation by government, etc.)
Hopefully this 'what-if' world has anti-trust deregulation going hand in hand with the removal of copyright protection. At one time, many theatres were owned by the studios and showed the movies that studio published.