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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 1185234" data-attributes="member: 177">Yes, well there's two things there.  First is the fact that the latest Zepata flick probably goes for a song.  If your programming is dirt cheap, you don't need as many viewers to make it popular.  If there's enough people who like shlock, showing it can be profitable.  You may think it's a bad way to do things, but it does fill a niche.Second, it is possible that for many of the classics, Scifi can't show them, because someone else has the rights.  Frequently, movies and series aren't done on a per-showing basis.  The rights to show them are sold in blocks of years.  If, for example, TCM has the rights to Jaws, Scifi has to wait until that contract is up, and then bid on the rights.  SciFi couldn't show the Buffy series if it wanted to, because FX currently holds the exclusive cable broadcast rights. Ah, I see.  And the fact that someone stands to make a profit out of it means it is impossible that anyone there actually is motivated by the cover-up angle? You think someone's going to pursue multiple major lawsuits against the federal government pro bono?  You think some rich person will come along and toss away millions of dollars in legal fees out of the goodness of his or her heart?  If so, I suggest that you yourself stand as proof of alien visitation, 'cause you sure aren't from this planet <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  If a profit motive invalidates anything good about the case, then pretty much all cases in the US have no moral or ethical value, because the lawyers pursuing them stand to make a profit.  This isn't Greyhawk, with Paladins running around doing the LG thing.  In this country, Law is big and expensive business.  Money will invariable get tangled up in it.  Occasionally, we have to look beyond that to see if there's value.</blockquote>

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