The copywrong industry’s various executives spat enough collective bile to fill the world’s oceans recently when it emerged that Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith had appeared on BitTorrent. Tens of thousands of people at a time were downloading the film without lining the studio shareholders’ palms with gold. The MPAA President and CEO, Dan Glick, said ‘there is no better example of how theft dims the magic of the movies for everyone than this report today regarding BitTorrent providing users with illegal copies of Revenge of the Sith’.
First of all, the fact that he talks about BitTorrent as if it were a single organisation committing immoral acts (much like his own in fact) betrays how little he actually knows about it.
But the most telling revelation of all is the fact that ROTS has broken sales records worldwide- in the US it made $50 million in a single day. So, if BitTorrent is ‘killing the film industry’ and ‘replacing legitimate purchase with theft‘ (not actual quotes but its the gist of what they try to get us to believe) then how come the most popular BitTorrent download in a long while has made more money than any other film in history?
Either file-sharers are an obscure, marginalised bunch (bear in mind that 60 million people in the United States alone engage in filesharing) or all this propaganda about filesharing killing the copywrong industries is complete bullshit.
No prizes for guessing the answer folks!
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