"20 billion damage through moviepiracy"
MPAA, the representative of the American movie industry, stilt after examine that piracy the American economy the past year clear away twenty billion dollar damage has dealt. That can be been translated in more than 141,000 lost jobs.
The report with the title 'De Real Price of moviepiracy for the American Economy' was exported by it Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI), according to the Motion Picture Association or America a “nun-profit, impartial public denktank” from Texas.
The IPI was set up in 1987 by the controversial Republican old-senator Dick Armey and general is seen as an ultra-conservative institution. IPI declares to keep to take no donaties of public bodies on, the independence. Donaties from the business world are accepted. The donateurs its mostly secret.
According to the MPAA, there is lost clear missed next to the 141,000 about 837 million dollars at load earnings. MPAA-senior official Then Glickman puts that these figures the politicians awake must shake. “The study makes for the first time clear that piracy not only the movie industry damages, but a dangerous domino-effect causes”, according to Glickman.
During a discussiepanel about piracy of the American ministry of Trade declared Glickman last week that piracy the most lucrative growth markets “on daily and self uurbasis” undermines.
The investigation must exhort hopes legislators to protect intellectual property better, the MPAA.