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The European Commission has released a new report on the film viewing habits of Europeans this week.
The report, titled A profile of current and future audiovisual audience, draws its conclusions based on a survey of 4,608 respondents between the ages of 4 and 50 scattered across Europe. The participants were taken from a representative sample of ten different countries including France, Germany and the UK...
The study does not distinguish between legal and illegal downloads, but half of all respondents said they downloaded or streamed films because cinema tickets and DVDs are too expensive. This suggests that the films they watch come from pirate sources.
More than two-third (68%) of film viewers said they downloaded movies without paying, and half of this group did so on a weekly basis. Streaming free movies is slightly less popular with 56% of the total, but its still something half of the population has experience with.
http://torrentfreak.com/most-europeans-download-and-stream-pirated-movies-140214/
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An interesting read.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)I've only heard of one or two instances here in Korea of someone getting a warning about it. I suppose the crack down will come someday. I'll just have to buy a 50 trillion bite hard drive I guess.
Fearless
(18,421 posts)Or just ten of these standard size hard drives...
http://www.zdnet.com/toshiba-launches-5tb-enterprise-hard-drives-7000026294/
Of course wait a year or two and you'll get this baby...
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/168619-3d-magnetic-storage-breakthrough-enables-100tb-hard-drives
What a world we live in!
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)I could take everything off my small portable and my computer and start filling it. I have every episode of MASH.