UK man jailed for years for pirating movie

People are always shocked to hear that Fast and Furious 6 made $500,000,000

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It’s the 47th highest box office gross movie of all time. But considering Frozen is the #5 top grossing movie of all time, two things become clear. Ticket prices are too high and you need to market to tweens and teens if box office success is your goal. Parents will still pay good money to get the kids out of the house for a couple of hours.

…something about money not equating to quality or perhaps related to the ‘He is rich so he must be smart’ fallacy with additional mumbling about real films, finding them, monkeys, sex, and footballs.

No such thing. The industry has zero incentive not to maximize its loss estimates, such that every bootleg copy equals the value of movie tickets for a family of five, a Director’s Cut Blu-Ray disc, plus popcorn and soda, and hell, maybe a couple of t-shirts, why not.

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The loss estimate came from the number of downloads, and the known number direct from him was 779,000.

They only charged him at £2.95 per download.

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