It's kind of funny to me, that with all the laws the government's been trying to pass, all that fuss the leading corporations are making about piracy, all that talk about how it's supposedly killing the movie business - a movie still managed to gross over $200 million dollars in a single weekend, and beat all records in the history of cinema - that's right, no movie ever made has managed to make such an amount during the first two days prior to it's release.

Now, it's not as if a pirated version of the movie was unavailable to the public - roughly ten days before the US premiere of The Avengers, a camera recording of the motion picture was leaked on the internet.

Why didn't this impact the massive profits that this movie is making? Simple; new technologies available in theaters today (3D), give cinema a whole new experience - the experience that most of us can't have at home; it is because of this that even those who have pirated a movie don't always count as a lost sale.

The second reason for this is the fact that piracy isn't nearly as distributed to dent the movie industry's armor - I know that the big companies are saying a different story, but let's just take a look at some numbers - the pirated version of The Avengers was downloaded 500.000 times in twelve days, while ten million people bought the ticket during a single weekend.

Which leads me to my next point: Is a low quality camcorded version of a movie even comparable to the full experience a theater can offer? No. Does a buggy, ripped version of a video game even come close to the original? No. So why invest millions and millions of dollars in systems that detect camcorders in movie theaters? It seems like a waste of both money and time, as this form of piracy is negligeble and minor.

Your thoughts?