Lessons for Nollywood, an Arstechnica article describes how former “pirates” helped fix the broken movie market:
More hereSince 2010, Ecuador has experimented with licensing models for DVDs that incorporate, rather than reject, the informal sector. Street vendors, local rightsholders, and the government have begun to work together to address the problems of affordable, legal access to media...Beginning in 2010, vendor associations began to license domestic movies directly from producers. Many have gone legal with respect to local content. Some have gone further to become investors in film production. These arrangements are still very much a work in progress and have not yet made inroads with the big foreign studios—the Sonys, Paramounts, and Disneys that dominate both legal and illegal markets in Ecuador.
