The truth about People who Download
Jan. 25th, 2012 01:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ericadawn16This came out in July but I think it deserves a lot more press than it received back then. A study was done that revealed that "'If you download films, you have an increased interest in the cinema,' as well as buying more DVDs than the average consumer, going to theaters more often, and even finding that you’ll 'often buy a ticket to the expensive weekend-days' of theater release."
For most of us, that amounts to a DUH moment but the media companies insist they lose money from piracy. In fact, this report has never been fully released because the results came out so "wrong".
Read what little we do know:
http://techland.time.com/2011/07/21/study-saying-piracy-actually-helps-sell-movies-suppressed/
Now, we do have information released by the entertainment media that further backs up these claims:
Most pirated film of 2010: Avatar
Highest Grossing film of 2009/2010: Avatar $2,783,918,982
Most Pirated TV series of 2011: Dexter
Third Most Purchased show on iTunes in 2011: Dexter
Most Pirated Musical Act from 2007-2010: The Beatles
Albums by The Beatles sold on iTunes 11/16/10-11/23/10: 450,000 plus
Singles by The Beatles sold on iTunes 11/16/10-11/23/10: 2,000,000 plus
It is also a fact that downloading has decreased in the last few years. It could be due to the FBI and other agencies but the likeliest cause is that the networks and companies have provided more legitimate, legal options like Netflix, iTunes, On Demand, Hulu and being able to watch on the networks' own websites.
Keep in mind Doctor Who. It went from having its rampant illegal downloading referenced in a 2009 episode of Leverage to being the most purchased show in iTunes in the United States for 2011.
For most of us, that amounts to a DUH moment but the media companies insist they lose money from piracy. In fact, this report has never been fully released because the results came out so "wrong".
Read what little we do know:
http://techland.time.com/2011/07/21/study-saying-piracy-actually-helps-sell-movies-suppressed/
Now, we do have information released by the entertainment media that further backs up these claims:
Most pirated film of 2010: Avatar
Highest Grossing film of 2009/2010: Avatar $2,783,918,982
Most Pirated TV series of 2011: Dexter
Third Most Purchased show on iTunes in 2011: Dexter
Most Pirated Musical Act from 2007-2010: The Beatles
Albums by The Beatles sold on iTunes 11/16/10-11/23/10: 450,000 plus
Singles by The Beatles sold on iTunes 11/16/10-11/23/10: 2,000,000 plus
It is also a fact that downloading has decreased in the last few years. It could be due to the FBI and other agencies but the likeliest cause is that the networks and companies have provided more legitimate, legal options like Netflix, iTunes, On Demand, Hulu and being able to watch on the networks' own websites.
Keep in mind Doctor Who. It went from having its rampant illegal downloading referenced in a 2009 episode of Leverage to being the most purchased show in iTunes in the United States for 2011.
