The system is rotten to the core, and copyright as a concept has been broken since the day someone could drop a couple of 100s on the table and walk out the door with the digital equivalent of a printing press.

Copyright basically hinges on the act of copying being a laborious process, involving large machinery and man-hours.

This because such requirements make all acts of copying for profit activities, to recoup the costs of the copying.

But when producing one additional copy is a case of ctrl-c ctrl-v, calculating the cost heads into "angels on the head of a pin" territory.

People forget or don't know that Hollywood is the Silicon Valley of films. You need a special effect? There's a guy down the street who can do that. You need a special lens or lighting? You can rent that, today, for a hundred bucks at the shop around the corner.

That's why films, and the people who make them, congregate in Hollywood.