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Tuesday, 24 February 2015

Oscars nominees see online piracy surge

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Independent film Birdman has been named for an aggregate of nine grants at the Oscars
American Sniper would win best picture and Birdman's Alejandro Inarritu best chief if the Oscars were dictated by online theft rates, a study says.
It recommends being named in one of the four noteworthy classifications has an especially significant impact on illicit downloads of independent and craftsmanship house movies.
The creators recommend that makers of such films get to be more adaptable about how and when their titles are discharged.

  Many of the nominated films are publicising their nominations
The report was carried out by Irdeto, a Netherlands-based company that sells piracy controls to the pay-TV sector.
It used "crawler" software to monitor downloads via Bittorrent peer-to-peer file-sharing services around the world and says its figures represent the minimum number of illegal downloads.
As part of the study, the company compared the amount of piracy in the week before nominations with the week after.
Selma, Wild, American Sniper, Still Alice and Birdman saw some of the biggest swings in popularity, and each accounted for more than 100,000 downloads.
By contrast, two other films that had been tipped for the awards but failed to secure nominations in the major categories did not experience similar demand: Mr Turner has been downloaded 9,086 times since 15 January, and Inherent Vice has been downloaded 53,008 times, according to the study

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