Eight percent admit to downloading video illegally

It's your first post so welcome to the forum.

But what does a survey on people downloading movies off the net for free have to do with internet marketing?

Welcome aboard. That's quite an interesting fact there.

Do you have any more information on the demographics of those stats?

But around 19% more do and and will not admit it

Considering that 80% of Britain, France, Germany and U.S people is more than the percentage of people who are online, I find this "fact" hard to believe.

When you consider that more than 20% of these populations are aged and infirm, surely the question should be asked "80% of which people of Britain, France, Germany and U.S?"

I think he made a mistake as it said 8 percent of all U.S. households (6 million) illegally downloaded at least 1 copyrighted video from a P2P network in the past 3 months, whereas only 2 percent of U.S. households purchased a video legally.

Illegal Video Downloads Surpass Legal Alternatives 5 to 1 | TorrentFreak

Quentin

Piracy has been around a LONG time, and is likely to stay. They have tried all sorts of methods to copyright things, and FAILED! Heck, as a kid, I broke(In pirate terms, that means breaking copy protection schemes) one game. It had an over 5 stage boot process, and the 2nd or 3rd stage was loaded into the keyboard buffer! THAT meant that adhoc and stage breaking were complicated as any keypress would destroy the boot! I STILL found a way.

BTW I never distributed that, I did it just as a challenge. MANY people put their names/handles on them and DO distribute them though.

Frankly, I was slow to get into PERL and PHP because they are REALLY only interpreted. I TRIED to use the perl filter to encrypt perl, but it is too easy to "break". I can't even really call it breaking. And PHP has the same problems, really. It USED to be that most customers just didn't get the source. You DON'T for windows, visual studio, M/S office, etc... for example.

I HATE piracy, but I ALSO hate all the protection schemes that make things harder to run, copy, etc...

BTW I bet most that download illegally don't know it.

Steve

I really have to ask why you've chosen to put this post on this forum in this area?

Maybe you could have posted in the off topic thread

chuckle - and 73.45% of statistics are meaningless

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.