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Revealed: the true face of internet piracy A new study in the US has found no evidence that BitTorrent has a negative effect on US box office returns but that international ticket sales were found to be "at least 7 per cent lower than they would have been in the absence of pre-release piracy".
The researchers from the University of Minnesota and Wellesley College attribute this drop in returns to the long gap between international release windows, saying:
"We find that longer release windows are associated with decreased box office returns, even after controlling for film and country fixed effects."
AgogOver in the Hollywood hills they may be a dab hand at putting films together, but they don't quite seem to have the internet smarts to realise there's a simple solution to the issue of BitTorrent piracy: simultaneous international releases.
If we had presses, we would stop them. It's almost as though Hollywood isn't aware that the internet is global, nor that to release something in one country won't stop people in other countries hearing about it and wanting to see it at the same time.
The UK's film industry, at least, seems clued in to the thinking that legal accessibility will lessen the impact of piracy, but still faces major hurdles like getting films on to legal streaming services soon after release.
From TorrentFreak Tags: film piracy, piracy, BitTorrent, internetTweetreddit!StumbleuponComment on this article Your comments (4) Click to add a new commentbradavon4. I'm okay with waiting for the blu-ray before owning it but I do wish I could see a film in the cinema when it's available in The States.
As I love films I am ultimately happy to wait though.
I certainly am not interested in those dreadful camcorder rips. I cannot believe people are so eager to see the film/to tight with their money/to lazy to get off their bum they actually watch those!
Alert a moderatorspiros3. People will download illegally instead of paying because a) the available download is overpriced, unreasonably restricted and/or poor quality or b) it is not available legally yet. Until these fundamental issues are addressed, the movie and music industries will lose
Alert a moderatorsimon_m2. I'm glad this is finally being discussed - the vast majority of piraters would much prefer to see new films in the cinema, as the early pirate versions on torrent sites tend to be rubbish (you don't get the good ones till DVD release normally) - this would help the film industry and film lovers. Torrenting isn't always about money - it is so often about convenience. There is no reason why the USA should get films first in the internet age - it's just asking for trouble.
Alert a moderatorgsegelov1. Honestly! Who pays these ''researchers'' to do the most captain obvious study imaginable?!
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