Saturday 4 April 2009

Open Forum Friday: Does Piracy Actually Hurt a Film Financially?

From: FilmJunk.com

So, first things first… a DVD-quality workprint of X-Men Origins: Wolverine was leaked to file-sharing sites earlier this week, making it perhaps the highest profile movie ever to be leaked online ahead of its release date — nearly a month before, no less. This has sent shockwaves throughout the industry, with Fox scrambling to find out how such a thing could have slipped out, and a lot of people from the press and the blogosphere arguing about whether or not it is appropriate to run news stories about the leak, much less download it and review it.

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