Well, it should surprise no-one that Hollywood is lying.
p2p.net reporting...
“Despite fears that internet piracy would dent its profits, Hollywood has had a buoyant year,” says the Guardian Unlimited.
For "buoyant" read almost forty-five billion dollars in revenues.
That's right, 45 BILLION DOLLARS. Apparently, despite their attempts to link file sharing with piracy, and despite their attempts to claim that piracy and filesharing are ruining the industry, they somehow managed to make 45 billion dollars last year.
Let me call a "Waaaaaaaaaaaah!"mbulance.
Bear in mind at all times that the MPAA and the RIAA have a vested interest in you believing that filesharing and piracy are the same thing.
See, PIRACY is where you illegally duplicate someone else's music or movie, and SELL IT. FILESHARING is the same as giving a copy to you buddy for free. Not the same.
PIRACY hurts everybody. FILESHARING increases interest in the property - because a legitimate, store-bought copy always has features that the shared file doesn't. For example, in movies, a shared movie typically has less than a THIRD of the screen resolution and picture quality of a DVD.
(Of course, this has problems in and of itself: the MPAA has been frantically trying to pass a law saying that that kind of degradation of the product constitutes an illegal act in and of itself.)
Oh, well.
In other news, Pariah just got released, so all the Xbox gamers should be happy, and EverCrack 2 is getting its first expansion pack.
GIVE SONY MORE MONEY!! YOU, YES YOU RIGHT THERE!
Heh.
Happy 5 May, everyone.
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