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Originally Posted by DamianJ
As far as I know, these regions are not bastions of respect for copyright. Could it be that piracy is not having a significant effect on box office sales after all?
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Or could it simply be that theatrical experience cannot be stolen and people still visit movie theaters because it is an
event for them such as day off that goes beyond just watching a movie? In Asia and Latin America many economies are still growing which could be the reason why more people are going to see new movies in theaters.
Unlike Hollywood, porn cannot boast the luxury of having solid and steady movie ticket sales revenue that allows them to entrench and fight internet piracy for decades if need be. We'll be all toast long before that because we do not have any fat to trim. Internet sales are pretty much the only income that we have.
That's why we need to fight piracy tooth and nail NOW. Yes new laws that will catch up with the advance in technology are not in place yet, but even exisiting laws still give us a wealth of instruments and authority to combat piracy. We need to MAX out of them, not simply sit and wait until Hollywood/SOPA whatever/whoever else will sort our problems out for us.