Researchers Find Megaupload Shutdown Hurt Box Office Revenues

An anonymous reader writes "We've heard this one before, over and over again: pirates are the biggest spenders. It therefore shouldn't surprise too many people to learn that shutting down Megaupload earlier this year had a negative effect on box office revenues. The latest finding comes from a paper titled: 'Piracy and Movie Revenues: Evidence from Megaupload.'"

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Re:Does it or does it not

[fustakrakich]

Or, you know, somebody could develop a secure operating system that's not so easily compromised, but where's the money in that, eh? You can't secure a network with takedowns, which serve no purpose outside of censorship.