<story><title>How the US Pushed Sweden to Take Down the Pirate Bay</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/how-the-us-pushed-sweden-to-take-down-the-pirate-bay-171212/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ckastner</author><text>It never ceases to amaze me how much influence the MPAA has.&lt;p&gt;Movies, while extremely popular, don&amp;#x27;t generate &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt; much money: in 2016, total box office results in the US were under $12bn [1]. That&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;the entire industry&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Apple alone makes that much money in three weeks&amp;#x27; time.&lt;p&gt;Amazing, that you can apply such pressure to politics, with so little.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.statista.com&amp;#x2F;statistics&amp;#x2F;187069&amp;#x2F;north-american-box-office-gross-revenue-since-1980&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.statista.com&amp;#x2F;statistics&amp;#x2F;187069&amp;#x2F;north-american-bo...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>astura</author><text>American box office results are far from the only source of revenue for movies. Their is foreign box office, DVD&amp;#x2F;Blueray sales, digital sales, digital rentals, streaming fees, and broadcast fees.&lt;p&gt;In Blockbuster&amp;#x27;s heyday their revenue &lt;i&gt;alone&lt;/i&gt; surpassed American box office sales.</text></comment>
<story><title>How the US Pushed Sweden to Take Down the Pirate Bay</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/how-the-us-pushed-sweden-to-take-down-the-pirate-bay-171212/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ckastner</author><text>It never ceases to amaze me how much influence the MPAA has.&lt;p&gt;Movies, while extremely popular, don&amp;#x27;t generate &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt; much money: in 2016, total box office results in the US were under $12bn [1]. That&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;the entire industry&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Apple alone makes that much money in three weeks&amp;#x27; time.&lt;p&gt;Amazing, that you can apply such pressure to politics, with so little.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.statista.com&amp;#x2F;statistics&amp;#x2F;187069&amp;#x2F;north-american-box-office-gross-revenue-since-1980&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.statista.com&amp;#x2F;statistics&amp;#x2F;187069&amp;#x2F;north-american-bo...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>digi_owl</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s because so few care about copyright. It is seen as something dry and stodgy that only affect artists and their publishers&amp;#x2F;labels.&lt;p&gt;This perhaps because once the cassette recorder, never mind the VCR, came to be, most nations on the western side of the wall decided to not go full police state and thus added a &amp;quot;friends and family&amp;quot; clause to their copyright laws.&lt;p&gt;This meant that a person could create a copy, if it was meant for a direct friend or a relative. This avoided having to park a copyright cop in every home in the nation.&lt;p&gt;Never mind that producing analog copies from tape to tape cause of a noticeable loss of content with each generation removed from the original.&lt;p&gt;But the computer, never mind the internet, changed all that. It made mass copying not something that required massive machinery in a warehouse, but something every kid could do in their own home. Especially as bandwidth and storage capacity kept improving at a massive rate.&lt;p&gt;And digital copies do not degrade like an analog one does.</text></comment>