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Suppressed Report Shows Pirates Are Good Customers

An anonymous reader writes "The movie and music industry think pirates are criminals and parasites who cost both industries billions of dollars in lost sales. In order to prove this fact a number of studies have been commissioned to help demonstrate the effect a pirate has on sales of entertainment. GfK Group is one of the largest market research companies in the world and is often used by the movie industry to carry out research and studies into piracy. Talking to a source within GfK who wished to remain anonymous, Telepolis found that a recent study looking at pirates and their purchasing activities found them to be almost the complete opposite of the criminal parasites the entertainment industry want them to be. The study states that it is much more typical for a pirate to download an illegal copy of a movie to try it before purchasing. They are also found to purchase more DVDs than the average consumer, and they visit the movie theater more, especially for opening weekend releases which typically cost more to attend."

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  1. other fake 'information' proving fatal to us? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    no gadgets required

    should it not be considered that the domestic threats to all of us/our
    freedoms be intervened on/removed, so we wouldn't be compelled to hide our
    sentiments, &/or the truth, about ANYTHING, including the origins of the
    hymenology council, & their sacred mission? with nothing left to hide,
    there'd be room for so much more genuine quantifiable progress?

    you call this 'weather'? much of our land masses are going under
    water, or burning up, as we fail to consider anything at all that really
    matters, as we've been instructed that we must maintain our silence (our
    last valid right?), to continue our 'safety' from... mounting terror.

    meanwhile, back at the raunch; there are exceptions? the unmentionable
    sociopath weapons peddlers are thriving in these times of worldwide
    sufferance? the royals? our self appointed murderous neogod rulers? all
    better than ok, thank..... us. their stipends/egos/disguises are secure,
    so we'll all be ok/not killed by mistaken changes in the MANufactured
    'weather', or being one of the unchosen 'too many' of us, etc...?

    truth telling & disarming are the only mathematically & spiritually
    correct options. read the teepeeleaks etchings. see you there?

    diaperleaks group worldwide. thanks for your increasing awareness?