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.
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