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Piracy Persuasive Speech

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Intro: Judge, what most people don’t realize is that the entertainment industry is a monopoly. It is a monopoly with just a few key players. And these players just keep raising the prices. Without piracy acting as a form of disruption the prices would be much higher than they already are! Piracy is causing distributors to rethink their ways making entertainment much more affordable and accessible to the masses. Piracy is a GOOD thing!
Hello judge, my name is Shreya Naik and I am the second proposition speaker for the topic Piracy does more good than harm for the entertainment industry. I would like to start off by refuting some of my respected points.

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My first point is that piracy isn’t hurting the entertainment industry it’s …show more content…

film industry is breaking record after record. “Despite the Motion Picture Association of America’s (MPAA) claim that online piracy is devastating the movie industry, Hollywood achieved record-breaking global box office revenues of $35 billion in 2012, a 6% increase over 2011,” the report reads. Even the music industry is doing well. Revenue from concerts, publishing and digital sales has increased significantly since the early 2000s. On top of that piracy BENEFITS the entertainment industry. Publicity from the pirated items will cause a person to be exposed to that …show more content…

So if a tub-size container cost the theater, say, 92 cents, combined with the 8 cents for the kernels, that tub of popcorn could carry a 700 percent mark-up. Also with there only being a few players in the monopoly, prices keep on rising. In 1980 for a person to go see a movie it was $2.69. With respect for the change in economic situation and inflation, today’s price should be around $7.73.
Yet today’s price is around $11.75!!! That’s more than four dollars more and without accounting for the popcorn and other snacks that can easily add up to more than $20!!. This makes going to see a movie almost completely impossible for a person who earns minimum - wage or less. Piracy gives an opportunity to the lower class to enjoy the same privileges as the middle and upper classes.
Impact: Judge, with the prices on the rise because of entertainment monopolies, piracy is the only way to make entertainment available to the general masses. The monopolies that these big businesses hold are in fact more unconstitutional than piracy itself. Judge, for these reasons and many more I believe the proposition side should win this

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