Piracy

Impact of PIRACY on the film industry:

• Research suggests that almost 30% of the UK population is active in some form of piracy, either through streaming content online or buying counterfeit DVDs.
• Such theft costs the UK audiovisual industries about £500m a year.
• According to a 2010 TERA report, up to a quarter of a million jobs will be at risk if nothing is done about copyright infringement in the UK by 2015.
• Hollywood director Lexi Alexander has said that piracy statistics are incorrect
• “Piracy has NOT been proven to hurt box-office numbers - on the contrary, several studies say it may have boosted the bottom line.”
• The Wolf of Wall Street was named the most pirated film of 2014, it was downloaded 30.04m times

• Top 10 most pirated movies of 2014

  1. The Wolf of Wall Street: 30.035m downloads
  2. Frozen: 29.92m
  3. Gravity: 29.36m
  4. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug: 27.63m
  5. Thor: The Dark World: 25.75m
  6. Captain America: The Winter Soldier: 25.63m
  7. The Legend of Hercules: 25.13m
  8. X-Men: Days of Future Past: 24.38m
  9. 12 Years a Slave: 23.65m
  10. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire: 23.54m