Illegal downloads near BO levels in France

FROM VARIETY: Leaked report reveals scale of pircy problem

By David Hayhurst of Variety -- Video Business, 8/6/2008

AUG. 6 | FROM VARIETY: PARIS — According to a report from a leading national anti-piracy association, close to 450,000 illegal downloads of recent films are being made every day in France, putting illegal pirate copies close to the level of legitimate box-office entries.

In the largest study of its kind ever undertaken in France, the Association Against Audiovisual Piracy (ALPA) scrutinized Internet traffic between November 2007 and June 2008 originating from France to foreign networks permitting illegal peer-to-peer (P2P) downloading.

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