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Music Industry Staggers While Film Industry Blooms

Posted by timothy on from the follow-the-money dept.

GLX writes "The LA Times is running an article that explores the idea that while piracy has been the (supposed) bane of the music industry, it has yet to be felt in the video industry..." "Yet to be felt" might be too strong, but DVD sales are booming, and don't seem to be much crimped by illegal copying.

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  1. Tired... by or_smth · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'm really tired of stories like/similiar to this. Everytime I see one, I have to think of something I once saw another slashdotter say...

    Anyone who knows anything about statistical analysis knows that the results of a wide-scale advancement (ex. movie piracy) will not start to show up properly (read: without major bias) until about five years. Only then can you actually start to analyse what's happened to the industry.

    That being said, I still don't think that movie piracy will have much of an impact. Even my uncle knows that the movie quality is crap, and if he really wanted to see it he would see it in a [home, real] theatre.