 The MPAA released its first comprehensive study of movie piracy late Tuesday, estimating that the major studios lost $6.1 billion last year to bootlegging, illegal copying and Internet piracy. China, Russia, the U.K., France, Spain, Brazil, Italy, Poland and Mexico were the countries where piracy was more prevalent, the MPAA said. The study also found that the average movie pirate is male, age 16-24, and lives in an urban area.
Anyway, MPAA is not laying down their arms - MPAA chairman and CEO Dan Glickman said: We are calling on governments internationally to continue to work with us in limiting the impact of piracy on local economies and the film industry. Movies are a valuable product, and intellectual property must be respected. This study will help us better analyze and focus our efforts to fight movie theft.” MPAA’s effort which escalated into shutdown of world’s biggest eMule server Razorback2 hadn’t have huge impact on file sharers - actually, absolutely nothing has changed and p2p traffic is still increasing. Have you already downloaded some new movie for today?  |
