For An Industry Being Destroyed By 'File Sharing,' Film Industry Keeps Reporting Record Numbers
from the well-how-about-that dept
The movie industry keeps sending very, very mixed messages. It keeps insisting that its business is being decimated by file sharing, but then keeps putting out reports bragging how well it's doing. Reader ethorad points us to a page put up by the UK Film Council about the movie business in the UK, where it makes a pretty compelling case that the movie business is thriving, despite all the reports of doom and gloom. Some key highlights:- The core UK film industry has grown 50% over the last 10 years
- UK box office takings at record levels, with growth of over 60% over 10 years
- They have had a 500% return on their investments in film
- More films are being released, up over 30% in the last decade
- Independent films are performing quite well, taking in nearly half the revenue of major studio films
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i am ona buying used crusade as not to give my money to buy new films.i just wait a few weeks after street and find it used.
Screw The MAFIAA
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- The core UK film industry has grown 5000% over the last 10 years more, than 134% of the British GDP
- UK box office takings at record levels, with growth of over 600% over 10 years
- They have had a 50000% return on their investments in film
- More films are being released, up over 3000% in the last decade
Independent films are performing quite well, taking in nearly 500% the revenue of major studio films.
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After all, if the stats are invalid, then the industry is at worst lying and at best incompetent. If they are valid, then their "woe is me" whining about piracy makes no sense even according to their own numbers.
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If piracy is killing the industry AND the industry is claiming fantastic returns then one of those two statements is logically incorrect.
Face-palm for the industry!
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These are factual stats based on actual data, not guesses about what might have happened otherwise. But you knew that. Didn't you?
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Mike,
Is there something your not sharing with the audience?
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He probably knows what company the persons IP adress is coming from.
Also financial numbers for revenue are something that can be proven, unlike attempting to guess at how many people would have bought something.
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Thats what I figured. I don't know if it's right that he do so, but it would be nice if he called them out once in a while. Would make for interesting conversation.
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Employment, direct and indirect, is quantified...
Export sales income is quantified...
Domestic and global gross sales are quantified...
MPAA is railed when it speaks to economic impact, employment, income figures, etc.
What makes the film industry in the UK different when it comes to proferred stats?
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The usual "piracy" stats however are totally made up, because they have no way of measuring the impact of piracy, or even if there's any impact at all.
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The stats above are based on verifiable, solid data about events that have already happened, not guesses about what might have been. Thus, they are more valid.
"UK box office takings have grown 60% over 10 years" is a valid stat.
"We would have made an extra $600 million if people weren't allowed to share files" is not, for the reasons mentioned every day here.
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US Film industry
$11.11 billion in 2010 alone.
Take a good look at who's at the top. Which makes the entire belief of going for 9 little sites all the more sad and odd...
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Those are my favorite kind of celebrities.
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I know who's responsible for this
What? Ignore the pirates and their "huge impact" this time? ok sir.
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artist
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