film industry

I have shown recently that in spite of all the pirating …

• … “Revenues accrued by artists themselves have in fact risen over the past 5 years, despite the fall in record sales.” (link)
• … “People who illegally download music from the internet without paying for it are the music industry’s main clientele, because they are at the same time the very people who buy the most music legally.” (link)

There are some more interesting numbers that were reported in the Wall Street Journal yesterday:

• the US film industry had a 10% turnover increase in the year 2009 in their cinema section (up to 9.87 billion Dollar);
• DVD-sales went down by 13% to 8.73 billion Dollar – until 2009 DVDs always were the biggest percentage of turnover;
• DVD-renting went up by 5.5%, but the overall turnover only increased by 1% (to 8.15 billion Dollars), indicating a heavy competition on the market. You can rent DVDs for 1$ per day in the states in many stores now.

(via Fefe via Heise)