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Piracy Outstripping Legal Video Sales?
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."
Why you think the net was born?
Porn! Porn! Porn!
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I don't think this word means what you think it means. To outstrip legal downloads, piracy would have had to been behind first, which is a preposterous claim.
Those porn actors should not complain about loss of sales, they get busy each and every day for hours! Who are they to complain! :-D
Would you want to fuck Ron Jeremy for free?
LK
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You hurt them on the inside ;(
Oligarch #1: There seems to be a trend towards downloading content...
Oligarch #2: Really, wow, what should we do about that? Leverage the new technology to our advantage?
Oligarch #1: Naaa, lets bury our head in the sand and pretend its not happening! That way we dont have to do any actual work and can continue to skim traditional channels for the bulk of the cash!
Oligarch #2: Cool, and lets sue the internet!
Oligarch #1: Yeah, that will work! Kinda like our "fart vs thunder" collegues in the RIAA!
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
Uhhh, I don't know what planet you're living on, but here on Earth, porn is VERY popular, if anything, MORE people are fans of it than care to admit. The whole beauty of Internet porn is the SHEER variety of it all. Seen one, seen 'em all? I could say the same thing about Chinese people, but that would be just ignorant, wouldn't it? If you're not into porn, and it's "all the same to you", that's fine and dandy. I can't fathom why people like professional football so much. Seen one game, seen em all, right?
People get naked and do it, ho hum. Check out this other one where... Um... People get naked and do it, ho hum.
Actually, it's more like, "Wow! I've never seen the cat jump that high."
What?
Maybe I'm just basing this on myself or social expectations, but you seem really screwed up.
:)
Honestly guy, you've never been butt-raped in the mud by a doberman while being tied up and whipped by your dungeon mistress? Everybody is doing it! You don't know what you're missing! Maybe you're the one who needs to see a sexologist. Loosen up, pal, it fun!
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Suddenly your sig made much more sense...
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"Ironically, if I'd have just pirated the movie, I wouldn't be seeing that clip, as well as other annoying previews."
Every time I've watched one of those commercials at a theater I've heard a few people say "How do you download movies?"
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So it's a win win for everyone.
...5 percent was mainstream movie content.
:(
Awww.. No wonder the movie companies are so upset... People not only won't buy their prodcuts, no one wants to steal them either.
How the HELL did parent get modded +5 Informative?
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Oh, wait. this is
Right, that makes things clearer.