Hollywood Sets $10 Billion Box Office Record

kamikazearun sends in a TorrentFreak analysis that begins "Claims by the MPAA that illegal downloads are killing the industry and causing billions in losses are once again being shredded. In 2009, the leading Hollywood studios made more films and generated more revenue than ever before, and for the first time in history the domestic box office grosses will surpass $10 billion. ... [N]either the ever-increasing piracy rates nor the global recession could prevent Hollywood having its best year ever in 2009. With an estimated $10.6 billion in consumer spending at the US and Canadian box office, the movie industry will break the 2008 record by nearly a billion dollars."

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Re:How the MPAA thinks:

[Anonymous Coward]

every single one of your elected officials has
I don't understand: English is one of the least inflected languages ever spoken and yet people still have a way of picking the wrong verb form with remarkable consistency.

Why would anyone go to a theater?

[tjstork]

I think its been maybe 10 years since I've actually gone to a movie and I'm just drawing a blank as to why anyone else actually does go to movies. The whole idea of having to travel somewhere to get video content, well, that's been lame since TV was invented and it gets lamer every year.