The public service announcements will be aired in theaters across the nation. The intended effect of this collaborative effort is to “convince would-be pirates that copying and swapping movies costs jobs”.
Since money loss due to piracy is not concrete, this statement is clearly erroneous. No jobs have been loss directly due to piracy (prove me wrong), unless they count staff members caught pirating, which would explain it well!
“The dire warning comes after Hollywood has just finished counting the box-office take on its biggest year ever. The number of tickets sold in U.S. theaters in 2002 rose by 10 percent, the biggest gain in 45 years, as box-office revenues rose to $9.5 billion.”
Fox Film Entertainment Chairman Jim Gianopulos stated that “the difference between us and the music industry is broadband and storage.” In other words, the reason why the movie industry has not lost money yet is because not enough people have high speed connections or large enough hard drives.
“Jack Valenti, who heads the MPAA called illegal downloading of movie files a ‘moral problem’ facing both parents and kids. ‘It’s called file swapping, but actually it’s hot goods that are being swapped,’ he said.”
Story: Moviemakers mount ad effort to thwart piracy
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