DVD Release Delays Boost Piracy and Hurt Sales, Study Shows (torrentfreak.com)

One of the reasons that drive people to piracy is the delay in the release of a title's DVD or Blu-Ray in their local market. According to a new academic paper from Carnegie Mellon University, movie fans are finding it increasingly difficult to wait for the official DVD or Blu-Ray to come out. From a TorrentFreak report: Due to artificial delays which vary across different parts of the world, pirates can often get their hands on a high-quality rip of a movie before the DVD is officially released in their country. Researchers have looked into this piracy "window of opportunity," and found that release delays are actually hurting DVD and Blu-Ray sales. "Our results suggest that an additional 10-day delay between the availability of digital piracy and the legitimate DVD release date in a particular country is correlated with a 2-3% reduction in DVD sales in that country," the researchers write.

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FUCK EUROPE

[Anonymous Coward]

Despite the smugness, Europe is a garbage continent that has been committing atrocities and engaging in racism for millennia. We're talking about a continent responsible for the Crusades, nearly wiping out Native Americans, and rampant imperialism. Europe is the continent that started the two world wars and gave us leaders like Hitler and Stalin. Even after those brutal wars, Europe couldn't stop committing genocide, doing so in places like the former Yugoslavia. Syrian refugees are despised by many in Europe and subjected to rampant bigotry. Europe is far more racist than the United States, and that's despite strong prohibitions against hate speech. The EU is a political nightmare, which is likely to unravel because Europeans seem utterly incapable of working together to solve the grave problems facing their continent. Europe is a shithole. It always has been. It always will be. Europeans love to pretend they're better than the rest of the world and everyone should follow their lead. In reality, despite the smug facade, they're far worse than everyone else. Europe hasn't cleaned up their problems in thousands of years and they're not about to start now. Fuck Europe.

Re:FUCK EUROPE

[Avarist]

Right, I'm sure the africans are so worse off now than in 1900 where they had been living in huts hunting EACH OTHER with spears and after over a 100.000 years still had not invented things like "the wheel". Europe singlehandedly brought modern civilization as we know it to the entire world. Of course, along the way it brought a lot of war and death, but so has every single other region of the globe. Furthermore, through civilization and maturity, Europe now brings peace while every other continent (except perhaps Oceania?) has war and oppression. We still have a long way to go, but can you cite a single better place to live in the world today when it comes to standard of living, education, health, freedom, tolerance or anything else that matters?