[citation][nom]blakbird24[/nom]Am I missing something, or is everyone here misinterpreting this article? The article I just read said that box office sales appear to have DECREASED after the shutdown of Megaupload. Yet everyone here is bitching like this is propanganda to support the MPAA's efforts. Sounds to me like the MPAA would have liked to have kept this news under wraps.[/citation]
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[citation][nom]Trialsking[/nom]Remember this is Tom's. If you have read some of the unintelligible comments you will see that reading comprehension isn't a highly valued skill here.[/citation]
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Need to re-read before bashing on others ability to understand an article lol. Let me explain.
The article says. "overall movie revenues decreased following the shutdown" K so out of 1,344 movies in 49 countries there was a decrease.
Next. "but smaller and major movie releases were affected in different ways" K so this means that major titles IE: BLOCKBUSTERS "(shown on more than 500 screens)" So the major movies... The ones that count. Your Batmans, Twilights, Harry Potters, etc etc. You know the ones that matter.. That make the money. "the sign is positive (AND SIGNIFICANT, depending on the specification)"
So no.. It wasn't something the MPAA wanted to keep under wraps. They make their money from the blockbusters. Not the independent bs small films. They care about the $$$ not the industry
. So in short. Yes it is almost propaganda to support MPAA and anti piracy crap.