Piracy: Facts and Figures

For And Against Piracy: NOTES
- Piracy affects production, distribution and exhibition
- 77.75 million fake DVDs were sold in 2013
- Piracy owners earned a total of £228 million
- £700 million loss in film industries due to piracy
- Blockbusters can lose up to £4 million due to piracy
- The internet has made it easier to pirate videos. People can now download movies, burn them onto a disk and sell it.
- People can use the computer to copy movies
- Fast speed broadband means that people can put pirated movies online, for others to consume easily.
- D.I.Y
- Big institutions don't get as affected as lower budget film companies- Watching pirated movies takes money away from the industry, so smaller industries, such as British film industries will lose the money that they need in order to make a profit.
- Audiences will eventually suffer because of this; film institutes will shut down because they weren't making enough money, so there will be no more movies to watch!
- For example, Motion Picture Associations 2005: Studios lost £6.1 billion
- Cinema, Cable and TV lost £8.2 billion; £7.1 billion of it was lost due to internet piracy
-Peer-To-Peer software -> Bit-Torrent -> Delayed released dates
- Piracy is more common in the US than the UK due to release dates!

However:
- It is harder to pirate 3-D movies
- Film industries try battling piracy by releasing movies on many platforms, aside with releasing it on the big screen. Movies are now released via: Bly-Ray, iTunes, Download, Sky Plus, showing films on TV channels such as Sky Movies and ITV, YouTube download, DVD, Rentals online such as LoveFilm and Netflix and showing films on Airplanes.