The poor bastards lost their appeal and although their jail time was reduced the original fines handed down to them were increased to US$6.4M+. These lawsuits are not only pointless wastes of taxpayers money there is little to no actual evidence in my opinion that illegal file sharing even dents the profits. Here we can see that even though a slight dip occurred in 2005, generally speaking (the US box office at least) revenue has been steadily increasing since the 80s. And before you say thats only because ticket prices have been increasing at the same time here we can see total admissions have held relatively steady through the last decade. They've even increased a lot since the 80s.. wasn't the big cry back then that VHS home video rentals would kill the cinema industry?
So Willie Nelson is a stoner, who would've thought? Did his laid back attitudes, peace loving ways, long hair & beard give it all away? Or was it this latest news that finally made you realise? I think this tweet sums it all up for me..
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