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Originally Posted by DamianJ
I think you must be misremembering. The only figures available about piracy are the lies the MPAA admitted to making up.
The figures disagree with you. I know the MPAA have paid someone to pretend things are really bad and those awful pirate people are ruining their revenue. But it's a lie. They are doing really well.
I took a random weekend in July for box office revenue in the UK, where you claim things are awful.
2001 total - 110,503,467
2011 total - 155, 869, 730
http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/arti...ox-Office-2001
even if you go to direct sales the picture looks even rosier:
" New figures for the UK video entertainment market, released today by the British Video Association (BVA), show that video maintained its position as a leading source of enjoyment for millions of people during 2010. £2.6 billion (excluding subscription services) was spent by consumers on video entertainment, roughly the size of the 2009 market."
And they are not counting love film and netflix.
and for 2010:
"New release titles performed especially well in the first quarter of the year, with volumes up 10.3% on the same period last year, with a 31% increase in March. "
http://www.bva.org.uk/market-informa...rtainment-grow
So you are just plain wrong. according to statistics published by the industry.
What's wrong with making something people want to pay to see and marketing it well?
Been affected by what? And where are you getting your figures from. (NB: "I think" is not an acceptable source.) |
This is the link you posted to attack SOPA
http://dyn.com/sopa-what-you-should-...yn-opposes-it/
And there you can read...
We understand why the groups like the Motion Picture Association of America and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are supporting the bill as piracy of content costs the original producers/distributors tens of billions of dollars. They?re desperate for a solution to recoup that lost revenue.
In the government review of the UK film Industry
http://www.culture.gov.uk/images/pub...eport-2012.pdf
You can read...
Since 2004, real (inflation adjusted) film revenues in the UK have fallen. This is mainly due to the decline in DVD retail and rental revenues. Digital revenues are growing but not nearly enough as yet to compensate for falling traditional revenues.
Copyright infringement and theft is, of course, one of the major factors behind declining revenues. The creative industries, including film, make the biggest use of copyright and design by contributing over £36bn to the economy, supporting 1.5 million jobs.18
The point about the type of films that have been hit badly was a meeting in London attended by the producer of Sherlock Holmes.
Artists don't all just give audiences "what they want" , How would they know what they want, these are new films? Quite often film makers want to do exactly things that audiences find difficult and challenging. Intelligent people get into the idea hence a New York audience is very savvy .
For producers this can be a nightmare so they just want to make the same film again and again, easier to make sausages.