When Edison came up with the a way to make movies he patented his invention. Making it impossible for others to use his invention without his consent. When this occurred directors and creators fled to California to what is now Hollywood. They pirated Edison's creation  by using it and making a profit off of it. When people figured out how to take the movies that the movie industries created the producers and others in the industry went insane.This is hypocritical of the movie industry. They started out as pirates stealing Edison's idea so that they can profit of it. Now when people steal from them they want to stop it putting people in jail or sue them.
When cable T.V. and VCRS came out the film industry argued that this was bad for business. Cable TV would take films and broadcast them to the population without the consent of the owners. Completely ignoring the copyright's placed on the material. This being the case movie industry took the cable companies to court. the court did nothing but place a fixed price on the movies that the cable companies broadcast. When VCRS hit the scene it made it so easy to record movies. Copying and distrubuting movies could not have been simpler. When they took this to court again the courts did nothing. Allowing the new technology to continue.