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The DVDs of the final film haven't even been released yet (it hits stores November 11, along with a box set of the entire series), but the studio is already working on plans to manipulate the market for future Potter products. The current videos won't actually be pulled from shelves, but once they're sold out, they're gone.
Source: The Atlantic Wire
This is certain to work, because free 1:1 quality rips of the discs simply do not exist anywhere on the internet, at all. Fans of the movies will just have to pay through the nose for artificially-valued "special editions" (plus shipping + handling) when Warner Bros. deigns to release them, rather than just spending thirty seconds to find a link and downloading copies whenever they find convenient, at zero cost.
"Harry who?" will be the response in five years. "What's this about a potter?" Grandparents will regale their young charges with florid stories about Emma Watson's hardy procession into postpubescence, of middle-aged men dressing up as wizards to watch the midnight release of a sub-par bildungsroman.
And then Warner Bros. will send Geraldo into the bricked-up vault to re-discover the mythical Treasure of J. K. Rowling, and they'll be able to sell blu-ray discs of the movie carved from purest diamond, and the proles will get down on their battered knees and weep and thank them for their generosity.
This is what we in the biz call "printing money."
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