According to a study commissioned by the French anti-piracy outfit Alpa, French movie fans are illegally downloading as many movies as they are paying to see in theaters.
The study shows that in France, 13.5 million films were illegally downloaded through P2P while cinema ticket sales were only 12.2 million for the same period, the month of May 2008.
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American films were the brunt of the illegal downloads at 66 percent with French films coming a distant second at 19 percent
Release the movies same date as in US and i am sure that at least 1% piracy will be reduced.
Waiting sometimes up to 6 months for a movie to come in theaters from U.S. to EU is ridiculous, and some times gets even more to be released in DVD.
This is proof that the heavy handed approach to stop piracy does not work. The answer is to give consumers a feasible legal alternative - At We7 we offer customers free music downloads and in return they listen to a short advert - everyone gets paid and the consumer gets free, high quality downloads.
