VIDEOS IN MOTION - fasopo

Within this context, the instrumental use of discourses around piracy has an impact on the wayinstitutions and private actors relate to the production and the distribution of media contents. Bymobilizing moral and legal arguments, in fact, these discourses generate interventions that tend tomodify the degree of economic accessibility of the video industry. The economic structure thatresults from this process favours specific interests allowing for the accumulation of larger capitalswhich can be spent in developing the cultural industry’s profitability. The result of this dynamiccannot but be ambivalent: in the coming years Nollywood might become one of the leading filmindustries in the world, but this might happen at the cost of a radical reduction of its economic andsocial accessibility.66