P2p movie file sharing stats
p2pnet.net News:- With news that the major movie studios are about to launch their own version of the RIAA’s (Recording Industry Association of America) wildly unsuccessful sue ‘em all war, last month some 44,052,830 feature movies were on p2p networks around the world, says peer-to-peer research company Big Champagne.
This compares to a total of 1,318,867,987 music files.
“In other words, the volume of feature film files is about 3.3% of the volume of audio,” Big Champagne ceo Eric Garland told p2pnet, going on:
“Note that while each audio file is typically a ‘complete’ song, a single feature film often comes broken into 2 or more files, so the volume of ‘complete’ feature films using this comparison is somewhat lower than 3.3% of audio files.”
News of the studios’ bid to crush p2p file sharing amounts to incoming MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) boss Dan Glickman’s first big public performance.
The studios will sue more than 250 people, about the same number hammered by the RIAA when it started its disasterous (for the music industry) legal intimidation campaign.
The MPAA and RIAA claim their owners, the labels and studios, are losing untold millions because of file sharing while both report eye-popping revenues.
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See:-
wildly unsuccessful – MPAA to sue file sharers, p2pnet, October 4, 2004
November 4th, 2004 at 6:56 pm
This article correctly states that the RIAA and MPAA are raking in “eye-popping revenues”, however, other stories about this just state that the MPAA is losing millions of dollars without looking into the facts. It seems as most reporters don’t actually do any research and just repeat whatever the MPAA and RIAA say in their press releases.
The MPAA’s and RIAA’s strategy to just flat out lie and invent these figures is so absurd yet it’s incredibly effective since the media gleefully publish this nonsense time after time.
Drake
November 4th, 2004 at 8:35 pm
Now all we need to complete this puzzle is the BSA to come crying with the same claims about losses.
-MP
November 5th, 2004 at 3:17 am
Both Riaa and Mpaa are making Tons of Money yet they are losing Millions????? Can’t have it both ways guys!!!!!! The Riaa and Mpaa still look at a download as a loss sale when it just ain’t so!!!! If and I mean If I DL a song or movie doesn’t mean I would want to go and buy it. If I like a movie or song I’ll buy it. A / DL watch it once or twice and delete it!!!! WHY???? It’s called sampling!!!!
November 6th, 2004 at 12:20 am
It’s popular to ignore how we (the end consumer) feel about the use of the products we buy and use. I mean what do we know, we’re just the people paying for Musicians and Movie Actors to play around with musical instruments and in front of camera’s and WHOA, they get paid….
It’s a freaking song or movie – in a year or two, it wont be played anymore and nobody will be talking about it – short of rare rare exceptions.
They are not worth people going to jail. They are not worth thousands of lawsuits. It’s just pleasure-media.
All that said, in today’s days and times it seems that the media industry is the most important of all – and WE the consumer are ANYTHING but important. Why care that we want to exercise Fair-Use – why care?
It doesn’t matter of they make a billion dollars or ten cents – the point is ‘Where is my Fair Use Rights’…. If I were to buy a movie and copy it 100 times to vhs/betamax tapes and hand them out for free in some mall I wouldn’t be violating the Fair Use doctrine as set out by the Betamax case – so without keeping the US Patriot Act and DMCA (GARBAGE) in mind, it would not violate any other laws….. *sighs* But, then again, those two laws do exist and we have no rights anymore.
All that said – p2p cant be stopped and sharing is going to continue until the end of time – so all the lawsuits are moot because it wont stop anything…… nothing……..zippo…….
_-Jile-_
September 10th, 2005 at 8:31 pm