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What Piracy? MPAA Enjoying 17.5% Increase in Ticket Sales

By soulxtc

After record domestic ticket sales in 2007, and record overseas ticket sales in 2008, news that domestic ticket sales are up more than 17% so far this year makes the MPAA's fear of illegal file-sharing look sillier than ever. For the last 4 years box office ticket sales have been surging at a rapid clip and yet still the MPAA says more must be done to fight piracy and illegal file-sharing. After enjoying record profits of some $9.6 billion USD in 2007, with predictions for it to match or surpass that figure in 2008 based on record overseas profits, it's now being reported that domestic ticket sales are up some 17.5% so far this year.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on March 04, 2009 (boomark / email).