Record Box Office Indicates MPAA 'Piracy Problem' Hot Air

Kinescope writes "The motion picture industry has said that its profits are at risk due to piracy, but a record-setting 2007 box office has some wondering if the industry is crying 'wolf.' Last year, the US box office totaled $9.63 billion, a 5.4% increase over 2006. 'Piracy is so bad, according to the MPAA, that we need special legislation to target the dastardly college pirates who are destroying the business. It's so bad that Weekly Reader subscribers will learn about the $7 billion a year "lost" to Internet piracy. It's so bad that the MPAA wants ISPs to ignore years of common carrier law and the promises of "safe harbor" and start filtering their traffic, looking for copyright violations. The real world isn't quite this simple, of course. It turns out that the MPAA's college numbers were off by a factor of three, a revelation that came after years of hiding the study's methodology but continuing to lobby Congress with its numbers.'"

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[Blakey Rat]

Hi, could we stop posting this same goddamned post every single goddamned time there's a story about the MPAA or RIAA?

Obviously, whether or not you consider most popular films (or music) "good" or not, millions of people do-- otherwise there wouldn't be popular! Der.

Of course, the whole reason you're posting this is, as a Slashdot hipster, you're required by contract to hate everything that the average American likes. Make sure you also go into Games posts and rant about how shitty Halo and Madden are. Oh, and while you're at it, go ahead and make a post in the Apple section about how OS X users are so hip and cool compared to Windows users.

Or do everyone a favor and don't fucking post until you have an original thought. How about that?