Comments on: $10 Billion at the Box Office: When a Record Isn’t Really a Record http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/10-billion-box-office-record-899/ The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films Sun, 20 May 2012 21:06:15 +0000 hourly 1 By: Alex http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/10-billion-box-office-record-899/#comment-485120 Alex Sat, 26 Dec 2009 23:28:46 +0000 http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=20004#comment-485120 I left Piracy at the back for a reason, it is huge but not as game-changing as people make it out. The other factors are a lot more important and you have to agree with me on that one. People still watch movies as much as they did, it's just that they have more ways of doing that now. And about your piracy questions. Those numbers are very exact since a tracker (sort of a bridge between servers and people downloading a and uploading stuff like movies, music or games) keeps track of the exact number of people that have downloaded a certain file. When it comes to the quality of the movie they vary depending on how soon they are released. They range from cams to Blue-Ray rips in full 1080p glory. And I'm pretty sure it's impossible to keep track of every single tracker that is offering this stuff so 11 million could very well be 20 million since that site that reported 11 can only keep track of so many torrent trackers. So piracy is not something to ignore mate. I left Piracy at the back for a reason, it is huge but not as game-changing as people make it out. The other factors are a lot more important and you have to agree with me on that one. People still watch movies as much as they did, it’s just that they have more ways of doing that now.

And about your piracy questions. Those numbers are very exact since a tracker (sort of a bridge between servers and people downloading a and uploading stuff like movies, music or games) keeps track of the exact number of people that have downloaded a certain file. When it comes to the quality of the movie they vary depending on how soon they are released. They range from cams to Blue-Ray rips in full 1080p glory. And I’m pretty sure it’s impossible to keep track of every single tracker that is offering this stuff so 11 million could very well be 20 million since that site that reported 11 can only keep track of so many torrent trackers.

So piracy is not something to ignore mate.

]]> By: Andre http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/10-billion-box-office-record-899/#comment-485118 Andre Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:50:37 +0000 http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=20004#comment-485118 The lack of other venues for film-watching is mentioned in the article. TorrentFreak is the source for the 11 million pirated "Star Trek" downloads. Even if their figures are accurate (they're based on BitTorrent data and I don't know how that data is compiled), one can download "Star Trek" and still watch it on the big screen. Unless, perhaps, you're in Pakistan or Saudi Arabia. How good was the pirated version? High-def? Or a crappy recording some idiot did at a movie theater? Also, those 11 million downloads weren't all done in the US, and their impact at the US box office is highly debatable regardless of what the MPAA says. Here's an interesting article on piracy claims: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-shapiro/dear-fcc-please-dont-let_b_355191.html The lack of other venues for film-watching is mentioned in the article.

TorrentFreak is the source for the 11 million pirated “Star Trek” downloads. Even if their figures are accurate (they’re based on BitTorrent data and I don’t know how that data is compiled), one can download “Star Trek” and still watch it on the big screen. Unless, perhaps, you’re in Pakistan or Saudi Arabia. How good was the pirated version? High-def? Or a crappy recording some idiot did at a movie theater?

Also, those 11 million downloads weren’t all done in the US, and their impact at the US box office is highly debatable regardless of what the MPAA says.

Here’s an interesting article on piracy claims:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-shapiro/dear-fcc-please-dont-let_b_355191.html

]]> By: Domo http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/10-billion-box-office-record-899/#comment-485115 Domo Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:26:52 +0000 http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=20004#comment-485115 But piracy is on the rise too But piracy is on the rise too

]]> By: Alex http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/10-billion-box-office-record-899/#comment-485114 Alex Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:56:15 +0000 http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=20004#comment-485114 I'm so but this article is very much flawed by comparing a year like 1947 when to only option to see a movie or anything for that matter was going to a theater. Now we have every single movie that comes out in theaters at home in 6 months or less, either on DVD/Blue-Ray, pay per view or stuff like HBO. And did I mention piracy? Star Trek alone is said to have been downloaded from the internet more then 11 million times. That's almost 100 million in ticket sells right there, not to mention that a movie that you download can be seen by 2,3,4 or 10 people. So while the movie was downloaded 11 million times, more then 100 million people might have seen it, all of that without paying anything else but their Internet connection. People like and watch movies just as much (if not more) then they did 62 years ago, it's just that today we have a lot more ways to do it. I’m so but this article is very much flawed by comparing a year like 1947 when to only option to see a movie or anything for that matter was going to a theater.

Now we have every single movie that comes out in theaters at home in 6 months or less, either on DVD/Blue-Ray, pay per view or stuff like HBO. And did I mention piracy? Star Trek alone is said to have been downloaded from the internet more then 11 million times. That’s almost 100 million in ticket sells right there, not to mention that a movie that you download can be seen by 2,3,4 or 10 people. So while the movie was downloaded 11 million times, more then 100 million people might have seen it, all of that without paying anything else but their Internet connection.

People like and watch movies just as much (if not more) then they did 62 years ago, it’s just that today we have a lot more ways to do it.

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