Film industry admits piracy estimate overblown
by Alec Luhn
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
In October, I wrote an in-depth on the media industries’ prosecution of college students for illegal music downloading (“Downloading on trial”).
Although the Motion Picture Association of America, which represents the six major U.S. film and TV producers, was mentioned, I did not have space to include the group’s estimate of the cost of piracy to the industry in the story or the corresponding blog post.
It turns out college students are not as much to blame as originally thought. At the time, an MPAA spokesperson told me 44 percent of the film industry’s losses in the U.S. could be chalked up to piracy on campuses. The group has since revised this number due to “human error,” lowering it to 15 percent. See the full story here.
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