Despite repeated dire predictions for the health of the movie industry and the welfare of the people it employs, is estimated to surpass last year’s all-time box office record of nine and a half billion dollars.
The MPAA would have you believe that these are tough times for the movie biz as it faces the scourges of physical and digital piracy amidst a global economic downturn.
"If you look at the situation, the current economic crisis makes this problem much more serious than before," MPAA head Dan Glickman recently told a forum. "If we don’t protect IPR (intellectual property rights), our economic losses will be far worse."
Apparently Glickman either hadn’t looked at the overseas box office tallies so far or is keeping them to himself for a recent report indicates that the MPAA is about to enjoy record overseas profits, surpassing even last years all-time record of $9.4 billion!
So why exactly all the fuss? Money. The MPAA, just like the RIAA, suffers from the delusion that each instance of piracy equates to a lost ticket sale, which it does not. How many of you file-sharers would have paid to see "Twilight" or Disney’s "Bolt?" Good movies, like "The Dark Knight" for example, will always lure people away from P2P networks and services and convert them into honest moviegoers because they want to see it on the big screen and not on a 19" laptop screen.
Record profits last year, on top of those enjoyed in 2007, prove once and for all that the MPAA’s fears of piracy and its clamoring that it’s destroying the movie biz is now proven to be the falsehood many of us already knew it to be.
jared@zeropaid.com
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ZEROPAID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You have a duty to provide thisinformation to al news agencies including previous statements that executives have admitted that piracy does not mean nor incluse lost sales. I will admit to seeing certain sceeners – which led me to put my hands in my pocket to enjoy the likes of BATMAN RETURNS in the cinema….Not once but twice because it ws such a good film. And yes i’ll be buying i on dvd. Why? because every time ive seen it its been like the first time!
In fact I’m a file sharer and I even paid to see Twilight. Granted I saw it without knowing anything about it and it was chosen by the girls that were with me.
girls are cool
lol typical…Same story here! it’s just the mushy romance scenes basically…they go all like jelly.
it was the same thing when we went to see the fist spider man I knew they only wanted to see it because of the upside down kissing scene.
I paid to go see TDK and Twilight. I have also paid to go see many many other movies as well. The problem is with other movies I am not going to take a $20 gamble that the movie might suck complete and total dick. I will watch it on the pc if I am not going to pay to see it anyway.