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The Avengers: Why Pirates Failed to Prevent a Box Office Rec

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"Despite the widespread availability of pirated releases, The Avengers just scored a record-breaking $200 million opening weekend at the box office. While some are baffled to see that piracy failed to crush the movie's profits, it's really not that surprising. Claiming a camcorded copy of a movie seriously impacts box office attendance is the same as arguing that concert bootlegs stop people from seeing artists on stage. ... Of all the people who downloaded a pirate copy of the film about 20% came from the U.S. This means that roughly 100,000 Americans have downloaded a copy online through BitTorrent. Now, IF all these people bought a movie ticket instead then box office revenue would be just 0.5% higher. Not much of an impact, and even less when you consider that these 'pirates' do not all count as a lost sale."

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these 'pirates' do not all count as a lost sale.
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Whoever came up with the notion that if they made their product pirate proof everyone who would have pirated it would actually buy a legitimate copy is an idiot

Also, what about people who watched the movie in the cinema, and then downloaded the bootleg to watch it again?
I know people who have done this.
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If movie tickets were cheaper and they replaced their bulbs regularly - more people would do the cinema thing.
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Tribble wrote:If movie tickets were cheaper and they replaced their bulbs regularly - more people would do the cinema thing.
"If <insert ANY product or service here> were cheaper " arguments are still mildly retarded
If a movie ticket costed R1 some people would still pirate.
They'd have all new excuses. Petrol too expensive, travel time to the cinema too long etc etc...
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It would not have anything to do with the cost then. They would be the sort of people who would not attend a cinema even if it were free. They probably don't like the whole cinema experience.

And speaking of mildly retuarded - there is part of me that has to do this...... blame Rusty and Mousey.
Jamin wrote:If a movie ticket costed R1, some people would still pirate.
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Tribble wrote:And speaking of mildly retuarded
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Bwahahahahahah brilliant! Well gone - got me there.


Well gone?
Really? :lol:
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jamin_za wrote:Also, what about people who watched the movie in the cinema, and then downloaded the bootleg to watch it again?
I know people who have done this.
I know a few of those too.
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Question is who downloaded it first then went and watched it anyway?
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That doesn't matter, the end result would be the same.
It may even provide a reason to shell out and watch it on the big screen.
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something for the non-news

when has pirating ever deprived new generic flash-and-flesh releases from making stupid amounts of dosh at release? :roll:
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rustypup wrote:when has pirating ever deprived new generic flash-and-flesh releases from making stupid amounts of dosh at release? :roll:
Damn you rusty, you take the back! It's a Joss Wheddon movie, and it is fatastic!
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make me! :lol:

no idea who this joss fellow is and never could stand the over dramatic posturing of the avenger comics...

or comics in general...
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Sad for you...
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meh... i've always preferred stories over pictures... why this would elicit feelings of empathy, however, is interesting.
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back to the thread: who was expecting pirates to ruin the earnings? strikes me as some party grandstanding about nothing...

next it will be: asian hookers failed to prevent the release of 1 billion and 2 dalmatians!
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