The industry knows what your neighbours download

Did you know that the entertainment industry pays huge amounts of money for IP geolocation services?

Not for legal reasons or to press charges against filesharers. They analyse the IP locations in filesharing networks like bittorrent to find out what's popular in what country/region/city.

Some people even say that advanced copies of music or movies are leaked by the industry on purpose. When a movie or a CD does well on bittorrent, it'll always do well in retail sales. There are countless examples to prove this. The more a movie is downloaded, the more profit it'll make.

Of course they always claim to fight piracy and P2P. At the same time they use it as a helpful tool for market and consumer research.

*shocked*

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Originally Posted by Polarbear

There are countless examples to prove this.

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Interesting... where do we find these then?

I wouldn't be the least bit surprised.

Perhaps, rather than using this to combat piracy, it's really just to gain a higher ground in terms of advertising and knowing their customer base?

http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/f-new...esearch-398658

maybe for future purposes when there´s a cinema in every house

source? or it's fake.

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Originally Posted by Polarbear

Some people even say that advanced copies of music or movies are leaked by the industry on purpose. When a movie or a CD does well on bittorrent, it'll always do well in retail sales. There are countless examples to prove this. The more a movie is downloaded, the more profit it'll make.

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those people *may* be confusing correlation with causation. I am all for bittorrent and filesharing. movies should be free. but I don't delude myself that a movie doing well on bittorrent *causes* it to do well in theaters. isn't it more likely that a movie for which there is high demand, for whatever reason, will be downloaded more AND watched more in theaters due to the high demand that existed before the movie was even leaked?

In any case, there is no proof that one causes the other. Just that the two, high downloads and high sales, occur together. And that's what you would expect if there was high demand to begin with.

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Originally Posted by kurdt

those people *may* be confusing correlation with causation.

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They most likely are.

Popular bands have lots of fans. They will sell lots of cds, and will also lose alot on piracy, and it's all because some people prefer downloading, and (believe it or not) some people prefer buying music. If pirating music directly affected chart ratings there might be some logic behind this statement, but piracy does not move an album up on the billboard 200.

It`s logical. I agree that this could be true.