Go ahead and tell me that New York isn’t over. The city will be plastering subways with anti-piracy flyers throughout the summer, telling people, essentially, not to copy that floppy. Harried New Yorkers and in-the-way tourists will be treated to mock movie ratings, like the kind seen here. Instead of “R” and “PG” we’ll be seeing “RO” and “F” for “ripped off” and “f,” respectively.
Keep in mind that this is more about on-the-street piracy than cruising The Pirate Bay for DVD rips of Cloverfield, which, I must say, was probably the worst movie I’ve ever seen.
Meanwhile, the MPAA says nearly 23,000 people have lost their jobs because of piracy, which also caused a $903m loss last year. I… don’t believe that stat. That’s just me, though.
People still do on-the-street piracy? I thought that was in china and crap, or between friends using p2p rips.
Yeah, on street piracy is popular in NYC. They will even come into the subway cars with portable DVD players to show the quality, too. I never buy them, since I frequent torrent sites, but my old roommate would purchase them…
That number is basically “this is how much money we would have made if everybody who downloaded the movie had bought it instead”. The problem with that is that you don’t necessarily buy something just because you don’t download it. And what about everybody who buys the movie AFTER downloading it, who wouldn’t have bought it if they hadn’t been able to download it? Also, most people have a fixed income. So, most people have a fixed amount of money to spend. What people don’t spend on movies, they will spend on something else. So there’s no money being “lost”. It’s just spent elsewhere, and the government still gets it’s taxes on that etc.. And this whole “funding terrorism” is just bull****.