Comments on: Illegal Video Downloads Surpass Legal Alternatives 5 to 1

By: illegalmovie

illegalmovie — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 03:20:35 +0000

very good article

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 27 May 2008 14:04:56 +0000

It seems like the services mentionned above for legal downloads aren’t available in Canada and or come with DRM of some sort. Maybe if the big billion dollar industry could provide services comparable to the illegal sharing that everyone seems to love. Then everyone would stop complaining. I want my movies DRM FREE and in avi format. Thanks.

By: BrainaicX

BrainaicX — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:38:07 +0000

GO figure….

By: BrainaicX

BrainaicX — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:37:41 +0000

Really people that have there comps plugged into their high def TVs don’t wanna watch super low res versions.?.?.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:11:32 +0000

[quote comment="32835"]ur all nerds
get a life[/quote]
hi

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 02:01:47 +0000

Does anyone know how the statistics compare when it comes to music? I’d like to know if more people find it acceptable to illegally download music than movies.
I mean if you’ve taken that first step why not go the next? It’s just another form of media.
In other words, why doesn’t it seem like the movie industry is having as many problems in this day in age?

By: ravi

ravi — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:32:24 +0000

[quote comment="32769"]well, you can’t really go off a few people you know to represent the entire world, and although this is centerd on us usage, i’m sure it’s still somewhat close on the numbers. W3orldwide, i’d guess that the overall ratio would be closer to like 8 to 1. I know several people that dont fileshare, and do their downloading via all the free and legal content, and that includes people outside the US too. Granted I doubt this survey took into account how many of thoes six million people (here) who did download the “free” version, then turned around and purchased a physical copy legally. I know for a fact that we do most all of our kid movies that way. Grab em online, and if they like it, then buy it when it comes out on dvd. I have way too many kids to go to the movies, and if I havent seen it, I wont buy it on dvd, so where does that put me in the stats? Of course i’ve never grabbed myself some porn and then ran to the video store to buy it. Usually it’s a one time viewing experiance, clean off the keyboard, and then delete it, so I’m still one of the naughty 60% when it come to that – CJ[/quote]

By: 12.28.2006

12.28.2006 — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 03:36:17 +0000

[...] 1. Reports vary slightly, but it seems as though illegal movie downloads hold a 5:1 ratio to legally downloaded movies. Music has a 16:1 ratio. Ironically both of these figures have changed for “the worse” drastically since DRM started being used heavily. [...]

By: guenthar

guenthar — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 23:56:21 +0000

The only videos I download are fansubbed anime (besides downloading an episode of a show that I missed one week) and if I want to watch a movie with out buying it I rent it from netflix and watch it. I think online movie downloads (legal and otherwise) are crap. When it comes to the ones youv buy online you have crappy DRM and with both types you don’t get the quality or the extras that DVDs have.

By: Jasper van Weerd

Jasper van Weerd — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 00:58:33 +0000

The 8 to 1 is something I can get too, I didn’t expect they did count a normal DVD in this numbers, only the ones online.