The study was conducted over a 7 month period, starting in late 2007 and ending in June 2008. One hundred of the most popular French and foreign titles were scrutinized, which accounted for 90% of the total video piracy activities.
The leaked information suggests that nearly 450,000 downloads of popular titles are occurring every day, originating on French soil. The ALPA has also stated that their numbers might be underestimating the activites, with the total amount of on-going piracy being much greater.
I found it interesting that US-made films were not included in the file-sharing monitoring. Perhaps the ALPA only cares about French company interests? Big budget, Hollywood titles are the most popular films in the world. I am sure that there is quite a bit of Hollywood movie pirating also occurring in France.
Does this mean that we in Canada have to pick up the pace to keep our place as the worst hotbed of priacy on the planet? That's all we've heard about lately and that our govenrment is trying to put through an even more draconian version of the States' DMCA.
nice to see were not alone,here in Canada,holding up the challenge against the big movie and record cartels of coruption??
I'm Canadian and I'm doing more than my fair share of illegal downloading.
I asure your that Canada and France are not the only countries downloading music and movies via P2P. Actually... in Spain it's completely legal copyrighted or not and the US isn't very happy about it. And shall I start talking about Easter-European, Asian and Oceanian countries?
P2P traffic is rampant everywhere. How on earth can ISPs expect to actively monitor such traffic for real content infringement ? Answer: It's next to impossible. Not all copyrighted content that is downloaded is "illegal".
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