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Some of most pirated movies not even available legitimately: Report

Nishtha Kanal • October 16, 2013, 16:47:27 IST
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A lot of people, especially in India, turn to torrent sites or file-sharing websites to download movies and TV shows…

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Some of most pirated movies not even available legitimately: Report

A lot of people, especially in India, turn to torrent sites or file-sharing websites to download movies and TV shows despite the anti-piracy noise that’s being made all over the world. If you ask, most of these “pirates” will probably mention the same reason for downloading a movie illegally – it was not available legally.

Corroborating this statement is a report by The Washington Post that points out to a website called PiracyData.org that shows whether or not popular movies being downloaded are available via legitimate means or not. The website mashes up the list of 10 most pirated movies that TorrentFreak releases every week along with data from CanIStreamIt, a search engine that lets users find legit sources of buying or renting movies.

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One look at the website and you’ll probably know what exactly is going wrong with piracy. Over the past 3 weeks, says the website, only 53 percent of the most-pirated movies have been available legally in one digital format or the other. Only 20 percent of these have been available for rental or streaming. None of the movies in the list had been available for legal streaming.

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Currently, in the list of 10 movies, four movies – White House Down, Elysium, the Mortal Instruments City of Bones and 2 Guns – are not available either for streaming, digital rental or digital purchase. Only three movies in the list – The Lone Ranger, After Earth and This is the End are available for both digital rental and purchase.

What’s worse, most of these movies do not even end up getting released in India. Digital rental and purchase is still a nascent concept in the country and piracy is therefore the go-to option for most in the country. The same holds true with television shows that have a bustling fan base in India. Till the TV channels manage to air the heavily edited versions of television show seasons, most would have already downloaded and seen the show in its entirety.

There are two main issues that the movie and television industry would do well to look at. One would include setting their house straight in countries that allow for streaming and have digital rental available widely. Quickly making movies available via legitimate means would possibly cut down on piracy woes to a great extent. The second would be to address issues of piracy in countries like India that have a population waiting to be enthralled with movies and shows via digital rentals but are left with no option but to pirate thanks to lack of legitimate methods.

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