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I think it's very sad that film rights were trivialized by studios in their time to the point at which fantastic movies get cheap and the rights can be purchased by any yokel with three hundred bucks and the capacity to print DVDs. I would say that in the age of free downloads and a more globalized America, that cultural availability is worth many of its trade-offs. I think also that the import the buyers and owners put on items, is in the longtime a better testimony to the movie than the import companies put on an item. What in the long run is a better testimony to a movie's quality, the import to fans or the import to studio cyborgs? In that same bin was Hitchcock's Man Who Knew Too Much, and I don't think it hurt Hitchcock any. I'm not sure that in the long run cheapening, is really...well, cheapening. It's much better than films being priced outside the grasp of the populace. People making 5.15 an hour are moving towards having the same experiences in filmdom as the middle class, and that to me isn't pooping on something priceless, it's unearthing a treasure for everyone.
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