Pre-Release Movie Piracy and Box Office Sales: Estimates and Policy Implications
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The impact of piracy on digital media sales is an important academic, managerial, and policy question. Answers to this question are particularly salient for theatrical piracy where rights-holders and policy-makers are struggling to determine both the size of the problem and the appropriate legislative and managerial responses, and where there are few if any rigorous academic studies to guide their decisions. The importance of this question became particularly clear earlier this year when a pirated copy of the movie “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” appeared on Internet weeks before its official theatrical release, generating many hundreds of thousands of downloads before the movie was available in theaters.
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