Ever since taking on Netflix inc. at its own game, old Hollywood has struggled to turn a profit in streaming, with the likes of Disney+, Peacock and Paramount+ losing billions of dollars each year, sparking concerns that the services will never be as profitable as cable once was.
自从老好莱坞在流媒体领域与Netflix公司正面竞争以来,它一直难以盈利,迪士尼+、Peacock和Paramount+等平台每年亏损数十亿美元,引发了人们对这些服务是否能像有线电视那样盈利的担忧。
With no video production costs, illegal streaming sites have achieved profit margins approaching 90%, according to the Motion Picture Association (MPA), a trade group representing Hollywood studios that's working to crack down on the thousands of illegal platforms that have cropped up in recent years.
据代表好莱坞制片公司的行业协会——电影协会(MPA)称,这些非法流媒体网站没有视频制作成本,因此实现了接近90%的利润率,该协会正在努力打击近年来涌现的数千个非法平台。
Rivkin joined the MPA in 2017 after the organization failed five years earlier to build consensus between Hollywood and Silicon Valley to win passage of legislation in Congress aimed at stopping online piracy.
里夫金于2017年加入MPA,此前该组织在五年前未能在好莱坞和硅谷之间达成共识,以推动国会通过旨在遏制网络盗版的立法。
have drawn lessons from Hollywood.
从好莱坞吸取了教训
Production has been slipping away from Hollywood since the 1950s, but the effects have never been more apparent than at present.
自20世纪50年代以来,影视制作一直在逐渐远离好莱坞,但目前这种影响从未如此明显。
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