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Originally Posted by **********
If the movie was download 779,000 times, this is at least 779,000 people who wanted to see it, and should have paid the typical price of a movie to see it ($15.00). The thief's recording means that $11,685,000 in lost potential initial revenue, not including the sales of drinks and popcorn that the theatres depend on, and not including people who might pay to see it again, and not including sales of DVD or Blueray, and not including licensing to TV movie channels and TV stations in the future.
The guy knew exactly what he was doing. He stole, he sold, he profited.
I'm glad he's going to jail for 3 years.
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I thought pirates do it for free, not profit
As for 779000. How can you say all those would go to the cinema? Absolute majority just downloaded because it was available, they wouldn't go to cinema otherwise for that movie.
Add to the fact that the ones who would actually go to cinema would not spoil the fun by watching crappy CAM copy...
1-3% max out of those 779K (especially if it is worldwide number) could have been movie goer otherwise.