We’ve all seen them, the awkward people sitting in the empty movie theater next to us. You really can’t tell what they are doing but you are aggravated because their cell phone light is bothering the heck out of you. Did you ever think about the fact that these people maybe not just texting their friends but maybe actually recording the movie? I have never really been in the whole crusade of working against illegal distribution of movies, music and books until one of my favorite author decided to cancel her final installment of a series because some leaked a copy. Click here for the article. As you can tell, this really upset me, so I decided to do a little research.
I now know that the US has lost 1.3 billion dollars in profits from movie pirating and the whole movie black market coming to a whopping 1.8 billion dollars in losses. Each day 400,000 to 600,00 movies are illegally downloaded and that this number is going to get worse. According to US Justice Department, 23% of people have downloaded a movie online and 69% plan to do it in the next year. Then in a study conducted in the UK found that out of 1,158 18-24 year olds, 95% of them have pirated music. And we all remember when right before the 7th Harry Potter parts of it leaked out onto the Internet. What I want to know is why people do this? Why they like to take money away from not only our favorite artists, actors and authors, but also all the people that helped in producing our entertainment?
3 comments:
I really hope she reconsiders publishing it. Of all the characters, why must we punish Edward?! I'm gonna go cry now.
this article is very interesting to me because i have never have been informed about how many people record or download movies illegaly, i think this blog is well organized, researched and interesting.
I find this article very accurate and interesting too. My sister did an intership in Ny city this summer and came home with movies that were still in the theatre on dvd. She had bought them from private vendors on the streets that had recorded the films while watching it. I was astonished to know that it was that easy but yet our economy is loosing so much money by the illegal activities.
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