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The most frequently pirated material of 2007
That is one way to discover what is hot. On the other hand, the most frequently pirated movie of 2007 was Resident Evil: Extinction, with Milla Jovovich, so perhaps we do not have a representative sample of consumers here.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on December 29, 2007 at 09:28 AM in The Arts | Permalink
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"If you want a true snapshot of what people are watching and whom they're listening to online, look no further than the file-sharing underground."
No. If you want to know what "people who share files online" are swapping (and watching and listening to?), look no further than the file-sharing underground.
How large is this subset of "people"?
Posted by: chug at Dec 29, 2007 9:59:52 AM
Aren't these lists good evidence that few people are file sharing and that all the talk about how this will alter the way the music and movie industries do business is premature? Sure, these few people might be stealing sharing certain genres of music and movies, but if the rest of the consumers are still buying CDs and DVDs and going to movies the old fashion way, why would those industries feel any need to change their business models?
Posted by: Hei Lun Chan at Dec 29, 2007 12:13:25 PM
On the other hand, Resident Evil: Extinction may well be the most popular movie that people expect to be bad and so don't want to pay for.
Posted by: Franklin Harris at Dec 29, 2007 1:35:31 PM
I wonder what metrics Big Champagne uses to track. I've been trying (unsuccessfully) to track pirated download copies of In Rainbows, but the numbers are not stable. They keep changing
Posted by: Chewxy at Dec 29, 2007 7:26:59 PM
Ooh, just read the last part - 1/3 download thru BT
Posted by: Chewxy at Dec 29, 2007 7:28:16 PM
Reading that music list made me feel 190 years old.
Posted by: vachon at Dec 29, 2007 8:21:33 PM
You people don't get it. The end result is a change in the way studios are Picking Up films not funding them. The issue is now that even the hedge funds, foreign buyers and things like flow thrus and shelters are drying up as a result of a 6 billion dollar loss of revenue from file sharing. Where is the money going to come from? I used to bank the contracts i got from a spanish and german buyer to fund my indies. Coupled with a tax credit there was more than enough money to fund films. Now those buyers aren't prebuying, but waiting for the after market to have their pick of privately funded high risk films and they are doing nothing about the P2P issue at all; however they still take their 35% or so on dollars that are made.
It bothers me that people still try and use the "sharing" word in this epidemic. No ....there's nothing wrong with 1,000,000 people downloading the new indie from Focus or New Line....they won't miss the 8,000,000 bucks cause all those people will go out and buy it if they really like it...BULLSHIT!
Posted by: david geertz at Dec 29, 2007 10:10:22 PM
Uh, Tyler...there is no "on the other hand." Mila Jovovich IS hot. (And yes, I did pay to see RE:Extinction in the theater. There was a decent crowd that day.)
Posted by: srp at Dec 30, 2007 1:18:59 AM
I think the most pirate material is an indication of the kind of stuff that people would like to have but are not willing to cough up much money for. This is the stuff at the margin.
Posted by: HeShootsAndScores at Dec 30, 2007 10:13:56 PM
At other times in history, we could have seen the musical stylings of David Hasselhoff as a hot international download. He played at the destruction of the Berlin Wall, you know.
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