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Piracy Outstripping Legal Video Sales?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the consumers-have-made-their-desires-clear dept.

b.burl writes to tell us a recently released report by the NDP Group supports the horror stories being fed to us by studio execs, but not quite in the way those execs would have you believe. The study shows a continued rise in video piracy compared to legal video sales. The largest target continues to be adult oriented content and TV shows, with only an estimated 5 percent being mainstream movie content. From the article: "[A]mong U.S. households with members who regularly use the Internet, 8 percent (six million households) downloaded at least one digital video file (10MB or larger) from a P2P service for free in the third quarter of 2006. Nearly 60 percent of video files downloaded from P2P sites were adult-film content, while 20 percent was TV show content and 5 percent was mainstream movie content."

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  1. Re:Why is this surprising? by WilliamSChips · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No, TV without commercials wasn't the idea of cable. Cable was invented so that people who lived in places that couldn't properly get TV from an antenna could watch TV. The first cable-only channel, HBO, was commercial-free and still is, but the very next cable-only channel, TBS, had commercials. Please stop spreading that bullshit.

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  2. Re:The Internet is for Porn! by WilliamSChips · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    More likely have actual sex.

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