Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "The pie chart at the top is broken down as follows: 65% Dem 10% GOP 25% Other" This proves what? Nothing that I can see.
Originally Posted By ecdc Skinner nailed this one early on. The MPAA and Hollywood have always inflated the losses surrounding piracy by assuming that every download equals lost dollars. It's just not true. Any objective assessment I've read of online piracy concludes that it's a legitimate problem for Hollywood, but a very complex one that's very difficult to quantify. Most downloaders are also the biggest spenders on DVDs and movie theaters. How about the kid that goes to see Transformers 2 three times in the theater, then downloads a copy after its out of theaters, then goes out and buys a blu-ray copy when it's released, then deletes his crappy cam copy off his computer? Should he have downloaded it? Not really, but is he the kind of guy you want to sue for thousands of dollars in "lost revenue?" Not if you have any brains. That's one example of hundreds. I once downloaded an audiobook because the set I checked out from the library had a damaged disc and it was going to take a long time to get a replacement. Lost revenue? Not at all, I wasn't about to buy a copy. It's a complicated issue and if the MPAA wants a solution, they need to do exactly the opposite of what the music industry did. In any event, Iger (regardless of what party he claims membership in) is beyond full of it when he says piracy is the cause of lost jobs.
