Being one of the most wired nations on Earth helps people get content on-demand and on their own terms.
About half of Internet users in South Korea illegally download a full-length movie a week, a survey by the Korean Film Council said Tuesday.
The survey, conducted with 2,358 on-line surfers aged from 15 to 49, shows that as many as 47.3% of the correspondents had downloaded feature films through file sharing sites, by paying no money or less than 100 won (0.11 U.S. dollar) per film during the past year.
The margin of error is plus or minus 2.0 percentage points, it said.
According the survey, a typical movie downloader has downloaded 54.5 movies per year, which means 1.1 movies per week.
As many as 32.7% of illegal downloaders cited affordability as a reason for pirating movies, while 20.9% talked about time flexibility, it shows.
If movie piracy is regulated more strictly, 34.3% said they would opt to go to movie theaters and 16.1% said they would subscribe to legal movie download services. However, 7.5% said they would still download movies illegally.
Of those who said they have never pirated movies, 28% said it is complicated for them to download illegally, while 18.3% said they do not download as they worry about computer viruses.
Only 12% said they did not want to infringe upon copyrights.
As the US gets faster internet connection speeds and better connectivity rates, I’m sure we’ll see similar survey results here as well.
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American law will come your way now Korea .
i wonder why but im not impressed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecRxNLY192Q
its everywhere its free and why not download it???? all i can say is that the more they forbid it the more theres gonna be……..
its everywhere its free and why not download it???? all i can say is that the more they forbid it the more theres gonna be……..
ye columbiano is right.. there so many sites have free downloadable movies and watcheable .. so people take it as advantage …