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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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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.
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.
This is my sig.
"We could have made 20 Billion if it weren't for all of those pirates!"
So, the success of the Music / Entertainment Industry is justification to pirate? We hate them and can rip them off because they are rich? Well, because that's what the whining here sounds like.
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
"We could have made 20 Billion if it weren't for all of those pirates!"
And it's okay to take away 10 billion in income??? The only reason for the increase are higher ticket prices. Ticket sales have been falling for a few years now inspite of a growing population. Also comparing ticket sales isn't accurate it mainly hurts DVD and other sources. Those sales have slowed considerably in recent years. There seems to be two consistent arguments, "Hollywood is just plain greedy" and "downloaders wouldn't have bought in the first place". Both arguments are inaccurate. Hollywood is a business and businesses make profits or they die, period. Oil companies and drug companies dwarf Hollywood profits. Microsoft alone is bigger than the entire US film industry. One company! Also the argument that downloaders never buy is silly. Did they simply not buy or watch films before downloading got popular? What cave were they hiding in before torrents? With all the earth shaking problems we face it is mind numbing that the single biggest issue seems to be free movies, music, and games. Oddly enough that's my lowest priority. It's rare that a day goes by when there aren't two or three posts on Slashdot on this very subject and I've seen more posts in a day. There just seems to be better uses for our time than making the same arguments day after day. I think EVERY post should be marked redundant unless they truly make an original statement because it's all been covered before. And yes I know some one will think it's cute to mark this post as redundant. It's why I only post such things AC.
Would you prefer that they list every country that a movie has ever been filmed in across the globe?