What more can anyone expect from this immoral organisation.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080305-for-movie-biz-tales-of-piracy-and-record-profits.htmlTake a look at the group's homepage; nearly everything is about copyrights and piracy. The MPAA routinely asserts that the movie business is being decimated by piracy, but the press release announcing the Weekly Reader deal sits just below a far more interesting piece of news (PDF): data that shows the US box office doing its biggest year of business ever in 2007, growing 5.4 percent over 2006 and bringing in $9.63 billion.
Swapping movies over the Internet was more of a niche practice back in 2001 as bandwidth constraints made it impractical for many. Certainly it's much simpler now, and advanced P2P protocols like BitTorrent (combined with free trackers like The Pirate Bay) make it relatively simple. But the movie business did $9.63 billion at theaters alone in 2007, a substantial increase over 2001's $8.13 billion. US box office has also risen for the last two years, and international growth rates have been much higher and more constant.
DVD piracy and file-swapping pose problems for the industry, no doubt about it, but the entire issue deserves to have the rhetoric scaled back a bit.
We are of course unlikely to hear anything of truth or substance from this group of shylocks, their mission in life it seems is to fund flawed studies to hand to "donation" taking politicians who also share in a large slice of the pie, often runing into millions of dollars for a helpful swaying vote.
Lets not be further mislead folks, the next time you see a fake claim regarding piracy online dont forget to take the opportunity to paste the address to the truth of the matter on the MPAA site hidden away underneath the "fairy-stories", they are making record revenues, the time to stop pretending otherwise is now.
