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Originally Posted by TeenCat
so they calculated the price of movie and number of downloaded times, and then they found out how big damage it made? i would say maybe one percent of the people will go to watch it in the cinema, the rest just downloaded, saved to hdd and never will watch it anyway, as most of the people are doing   but yeah, three years of jail ... |
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Originally Posted by 420
How can the number of people downloading shit quality movies equal lost revenue? Those people could decide to see it in theaters for a number of reasons.
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If the movie was download 779,000 times, this is at least 779,000 people who wanted to see it, and should have paid the typical price of a movie to see it ($15.00). The thief's recording means that $11,685,000 in lost potential initial revenue, not including the sales of drinks and popcorn that the theatres depend on, and not including people who might pay to see it again, and not including sales of DVD or Blueray, and not including licensing to TV movie channels and TV stations in the future.
The guy knew exactly what he was doing. He stole, he sold, he profited.
I'm glad he's going to jail for 3 years.