This is likely due to the availability of inexpensive movie streaming services on-line, much like illegal distribution of music dropped for the same reason.

It’s interesting that the sudden drop in 2009 is directly timed with the release of online streaming from services like Netflix.

Of course, like the RIAA, the MPAA will never admit that actually giving people what they want reduced piracy, and instead will simply credit increased DCMA enforcement.

I just went over to Spotify, and I got this message saying that due to licensing restrictions, Spotify is not available in my country.

See? Spotify really is crap! Until we abolish licensing restriction laws, piracy will continue.

Shit was week. I did everyone a favour by not leaking it…

Also, the DVDs they use can apparently only be watched two or three times before they are unreadable.
Is this true, or just a scare tactic by parents/friend?

I would hope that RETAIL DVD means the actual DVD contents (VIDEO_TS stuff) and not THEMOVIE.AVI

because if that graph includes DVDRIPS.. that means piracy is going way down..

0_o

I’ll give them that the audio watermarking and whatnot probably account for the increased delay, but that will probably drop again next year.

See, I don’t pirate INSTEAD of buying.

I can either afford something, or I can’t.

Yea, that thing the industry doesn’t understand.

Accordingly, I don’t care about how soon or not the mass produced churned out shxt from failywood comes out on the net.

It shows that fewer and fewer people are willing to take risks to get those (incredibly bad) movies.

Maybe with some luck and time, they’ll stop leaking holywood stuff.
So people who downloaded movies before going to see them at the cinema will stop spending money on those, and start to download more interesting, non-majors movies.

This could be a great news for culture. And an income loss for the sharks would be the cherry on the cake.

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I love piracy and all – but even crunchyroll is filling the gap of fan-subbed pirated copies the day after the initial aired release.

I’m hoping that electronic copies without DRM – or hosted streaming sites (with limited commercials) take over for broadcasting networks.

And lowering the costs of releasing a film is in everyone’s interests – that means you won’t need a massive budget to get your work seen.

in the end – I should have a massive screen in my house playing hi-def movies at less than 3% of my household income. I’m kinda waiting for games to get as cheep as movies now.

Only 79% are available publicly online in DVD quality.

All of those movies are available currently.

The biggest problem with those services? Country-centric.
Spotify and Voddler aren’t available globally.

Another BS statistic from the master of BS and corporate parasites.

It is not going to make me go back and feed these criminal pigs.

I am boycotting.

Spotify is crap? You get to listen to tons of music for free. Why is that crap?

Services we only dreamed about? What you on about? those services are crap like the folk that run them. And as for piracy getting taken over well………………….

Weren’t the studies reluctant to distribute screeners for a few years?

And first