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Originally Posted by Nautilus
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.
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One indicator that tells me the box office is hurting at least a little bit is that if you go back to say 1995ish and you compare it to now. Today they are making more money then they did back then, but they are still selling about the same number of movie tickets and they are making 10-15% more movies each year. The only reason that the profits are up is because in that same time period the average price of a ticket as gone up 46%.
So their costs are up since they are making more movies and the new theaters that they are building are not cheap and the mass marketing that the movies get these days is also expensive, yet they aren't selling any more tickets then they did 15 years ago.