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Los Angeles Times: For the second time in a week, federal regulators gave preliminary approval to a company that wants to create a market for betting on the future box office receipts of Hollywood movies – but don’t rush to place your wager.
This sounds more and more unfortunate. While I can't really argue that people shouldn't be able to bet on what they want to bet on, but I hate the idea of more meta-industry surrounding tickets. On hollywood movies, I understand that it seems like more of a commodity, but surely the betting would effect ticket prices in some respect, at least when (not if) the betting organization gets interwoven with the MPAA. I really hesitate to think that there ought to be more rackets run by hollywood executives. The existing ones already aren't working so well for us.
This sounds more and more unfortunate. While I can't really argue that people shouldn't be able to bet on what they want to bet on, but I hate the idea of more meta-industry surrounding tickets. On hollywood movies, I understand that it seems like more of a commodity, but surely the betting would effect ticket prices in some respect, at least when (not if) the betting organization gets interwoven with the MPAA. I really hesitate to think that there ought to be more rackets run by hollywood executives. The existing ones already aren't working so well for us.
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