25 Million Americans are (Movie) Pirates

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25 Million Americans are (Movie) Pirates

01-26-2007, 10:31 AM,

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25 Million Americans are (Movie) Pirates

Quote:Roughly 25 million Americans -- or 18 percent of the U.S. online population -- have illegally downloaded a full-length movie, a study released Wednesday asserts...

The perspective is that users simply don't care, or believe, that that the studios are being hurt by piracy, the self-funded study found. The survey revealed that 78 percent of those surveyed found that physcially stealing a DVD from a store was a serious offense, but only 40 percent believed copying the movie digital also merited a serious offense. The study pointed out that those surveyed described an example of a "serious offense" as parking in a fire lane...

full article: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,16...020,00.asp

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