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Originally Posted by HarryT
I certainly agree that piracy is a real problem, and that there are undoubtedly people who do as you suggest. I'm not sure, though, that one could necessarily equate high downloads volumes with piracy - there could well be other causes for it, as we've already discussed.
I do think that 100GB/day is a huge, huge amount of data. My internet traffic is about 30GB a month, and that includes watching a fair number of programmes using video streaming (BBC iPlayer).
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Just out of curiosity:
I've just checked online and found "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" as a 50GB (!!!) download. Took me 20 seconds to find it.
A few other versions around 10GB.
How big would a family have to be and what kind of streaming services would they need, to get to that volume?
And even professional photographers and the likes have to do a lot of work, to get to that.
If such a movie is online, I gather there has to be a market and a group of downloaders.
Yes, there's no proof about any relation between movies and books.
But if it's such a huge market for movies (and it has to be, looking at the number of lawyers active and such) that are worth about € 5 to € 15 (for the 20 or so countries where I know the prices), why shouldn't there be enormous demand for books that are in a similar price range.
JFYI:
My friend in Munich is working in a well known (lots of media attention) lawyer's association. They generate a revenue of more than € 10 million per year in Germany for a single TV studio alone. On average, the compromise for "declaration to cease and desist" is in the range of € 300 (per case). So this means, this small company, 1 of 3 in Munich alone, for only a single TV studio "catches" more than 30.000 pirates (or whatever the term).
(Some pirates have to pay for more than 1 case, so it's a bit less).
Again: 30.000 illegal movie downloaders. Only in Germany. A single company of lawyers, in Munich alone there are 3 of those.
How many such € 300 payments are there then in Germany per year? A few hundred thousands? This easily might be a few percent of all households...And that's the ones they catch...