MPAA officially admits mistakes in piracy study Posted on 24.01.2008 at 13:30 in Tech News by Martin Hollywood laid much of the blame for illegal movie downloading on college students. Now, it says its math was wrong. In a 2005 study it commissioned, the Motion Picture Association of America claimed that 44 percent of the industry’s domestic losses came from illegal downloading of movies by college students, who often have access to high-bandwidth networks on campus. The MPAA has used the study to pressure colleges to take tougher steps to prevent illegal file-sharing and to back legislation currently before the House of Representatives that would force them to do so. But now the MPAA, which represents the U.S. motion picture industry, has told education groups a “human error†in that survey caused it to get the number wrong. It now blames college students for about 15 percent of revenue loss. The MPAA says that’s still significant, and justifies a major effort by colleges and universities to crack down on illegal file-sharing. But Mark Luker, vice president of campus IT group Educause, says it doesn’t account for the fact that more than 80 percent of college students live off campus and aren’t necessarily using college networks. He says 3 percent is a more reasonable estimate for the percentage of revenue that might be at stake on campus networks. The original report, by research firm LEK, claims the U.S. motion picture industry lost $6.1 billion to piracy worldwide, with most of the losses overseas. It identified the typical movie pirate as a male aged 16-24. One message for MPAA: Go Fuck Yourselves. I’m wondering what random number will their piracy generator produce next time. http://www.rlslog.net/ Sounds like a bunch of crap to me, 'human error'? yeah right, im sure these bastards were just trying to push that bill through and someone realised the difference between 44% and 15% was sueable and they dropped nuts lol.
Is this thread supposed to make me stop pirating? I mean not to make me start pirating cause I don't pirate...
I hate it when they say they lost that money. They didn't lose it, they never had it in the first place. They should just say "money they didn't profit from" or something like that.
^ yeah, its just cause they predict how much theyll make and then base thier budget on it, and then when they fall short they blame it on 'the naughty pirate public'
Yep, when a lot of the time its because nowhere near as many people as expected went to a see a film because it was more of the same crap that hollywood keeps churning out. When you've reused the same story a hundred times or so, only changing characters, places and other minor details, you really cant expect people to pay to watch that.
Yes i agree, I usually torrent a movie when it first comes out, lots and lots of Average movies at the moment, and I dont settle for average. Best movie of the past few months that ive got is Death Sentence. Worth a watch.
Yeah, I knew this, but I don't like the way they say "money we lost" It makes since though. You pay a certain amount to make a movie, and if you didn't make over the amount you spent, the movie's a failure.
Yup chances are i would have never actually bought the movies that i torrented but the movies that are good i wanna watch on my tv in full definition, instead of .avi
