Buzz out loud 675 Piracy

As most know, the MPAA has been claiming that piracy is killing the industry. Actors and Actresses are soon to be losing jobs and indeed the whole movie industry itself is being crushed by piracy. The MPAA just reported it's largest profit ever in 2007, $9,630,000,000 or 9.63 billion dollars( in case you lost count of the zeros). Piracy is obviously not keeping people out of the theater, and as the Buzz Out Loud crew suggested, piracy may even be good to a certain extent. Piracy promotes business as people who see the movie online usually end up buying it or going and seeing it in the theater. The ones who pirate movies and do not buy them would not have seen the movie otherwise, but they will still talk about it, and perhaps others will be interested and actually pay money to see the movie. Also, people do enjoy the whole theater experience of seeing the movie on a much larger screen than any television could provide.
Regardless of rather piracy helps or hurts the movie industry, one thing should be obvious; the MPAA is stretching the truth. Pirating is bigger now than it ever has, yet somehow the MPAA manages to earn more than ever before. One can not help but believe the MPAA might be exaggerating some of their statistics. Actually one does not have to believe as the MPAA has been caught exaggerating the affects of piracy in a 2005 report on collegiate piracy. The MPAA originally stated that the collegiate file sharing contributed to 44% of movie losses to piracy. Later however, it was discovered that collegiate piracy equals about 15% of movie losses! Obviously, someone made a minor error in their calculations. The MPAA will never receive wide-support, regardless of how people feel about piracy, if it does not use legitimate tactics to prove its case.