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This is where i would ask you to post your proof, but you've never been able to do that. Ergo, this is going to be humorous. Go ahead and prove something that goes against common sense.
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Well before you actually started to be active on this forum, we discussed and have argued over many court documents, records, reports and statistics related to piracy. I'm not spending hours pouring over the years of posts that covered this to simply have you argue them.
The MPAA in court records, more than once, has admitted that they can show no proof of any type, that piracy has damaged the Industry at ALL... AND they can not explain why the Industry has grown when piracy has grown as well - and yet it damages them.
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Actually, if you look at the figures(and I have), there's been a steady decline in movie sales since the 90s, and that's attributed to both the rise in cost and piracy.
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First, the movie industry has gone up and down (not always up) from day one.. Second, from the mid 90's to the mid 00's, the movie industry has VERY MUCH grown. In the 00's it hit it's peak and in 09 it broke all records.
By looking at the charts, you could say Piracy made it explode...
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I don't even think a "WTF" does justice to this.
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It is how piracy works... sorry that you don't understand it.
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This is simply false, because when adjusted for inflation, the movies of the 00's don't come near the movies of the 90's and before.
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They are like 5x larger than the 80's and 'almost' doubled from the 90's.. nothing but growth for both the music and movie industries over the last 20 years.
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Except this is irrelevant. If Avatar banks more $$$ than Titanic, it's more impressive because it did it in the apex of piracy.
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If this movie can't be pirated and Titanic wasn't pirated, they are equal. The "amount" of money makes no difference then, it's the amount of tickets sold.
When Avatar sells more tickets in the same time frame, then it can claim leadership. But that hasn't happened and it wont.
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Once again. Cheap tickets+no piracy=success. What Cameron did was NOT erase piracy, he just made a movie that is so good to see in theaters that people who download it still go see it in theaters multiple times.
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People are not going to see Avatar for the plot.... they are ONLY going to see it for the 3D and Graphics.