The movie and music
In
Dustry have been trying t
O portray fi
Le
Sharers as criminal pirates and parasites who steal billions of dollars from the ind
Ustry in lost sales. In order to strengthen their argument, the MPAA and RIAA
Commissioned a number of studies that would investigate the negative effects pirates cause to their sales. Ironically, the studies proved the exact opposite, and they had to shut up about it while repeating their usual accusations.
The whistle was blown by an unnamed GF
K employee who told German web
Site,
Telepolis, a study conducted by GFK on be
Half of the movi
E industry found that pirates typically download illegal
Copies of movies to try-before-they-buy. The study
Also found that pirates buy more legit DVDs than the average user and they visit the movie theater more, especially for opening
Wee
Kend releases which typically cost more to attend.
The study concluded that movie pirates are more interested in movies and that they spend more money on movies than most people, making them the industry’s best customers.
Unfortunately, the unnamed client who commissioned the study decided against it getting published. Not very surprisingly, the reason given for canning the study was that its findings are “unpleasant.”
It is worth noting that an unrelated independent research conducted earlier this year has found that anime piracy and streaming in Japan increased DVD sales.
Source:http://www.megagames.com/news/movie-...e-dvds-average
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