Fewer People Copy DVDs Than Once Thought

MasterOfMagic writes "According to a survey reported at the NY Times, very few people actually have and use DVD copying software. The survey reports that only 1.5 percent of computer users have DVD copying software, and of those 1.5%, 2/3rds of them don't even use it. The survey also revealed that users were more likely to download DVDs than copy DVDs that they borrowed or rented, and that about half of all downloaded DVDs are pornography. According to the survey's lead analyst, 'With music, part of the appeal is sharing your own playlists and compilations with your friends ... I'm not sure people share their porn the way they share their music.'"

You Just Wait

[Anonymous Coward]

With music, part of the appeal is sharing your own playlists and compilations with your friends ... I'm not sure people share their porn the way they share their music.

I don't know if that's true. You just wait, once the video Zune comes out, you'll rather sit in silence on the subway than see what people are squirting at you.

Oops

[Imexius]

mencoder dvd:// -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -o thematrix.avi

Oops wrong window

Odd purchasing habits...

[GWLlosa]

Does this mean that the guy I saw at the Best Buy buying 3 spindles of blank DVDs was, in fact, about to record 160 discs full of porn? I'd think he'd get carpal tunnel....



From changing out the discs repeatedly, of course.

Sharing music

[Anonymous Coward]

He who says we don't share our porn like we share our music is wrong. I share all my music with the following warning.

Make sure your wife's outta the room by 0:36:00, that's when the horse arrives.

Survey says...

[iminplaya]

...about half of all downloaded DVDs are pornography.

And the other half are liars.

Re:Odd purchasing habits...

[C0rinthian]

Yes. But around these parts we call it 'archiving data'.

hmm

[flynt]

I'm not sure people share their porn the way they share their music.

Sounds like you need new friends.

The numbers

[halcyon1234]

1.5% of users said they copied DVDs.

12.5% of users said they didn't copy DVDs

86% of users shifted their eyes back and forth, coughed and changed the subject

Re:1.5 percent?

[night_flyer]

maybe only 1.5% realize they have DVD burning software installed for their cup holder

Well, someone's full of shit

[Pluvius]

Either the New York Times, who says that very few people copy and burn DVDs and the people who download DVDs are as likely to be getting porn as not, or the MPAA, who says that movie piracy is rampant and costing the movie industry billions (yes, with a B) of dollars a year.

I know which side I'm betting on.

Rob

Denial

[sehlat]

I did not have sexual relations while watching that DVD!

Duh

[illegalcortex]

Of course very few people copy dvds. It would be rather silly for ALL of us to rip them before putting them up on bittorrent.

Re:Sharing music

[dcellis]

horse? Please - don't ever share your porn with me.

Biased sample?

[yuna49]

From TFA, this study was released by "the NPD Group, a research group that has monitored the behavior of 12,000 Americans with software on their computers."

I'd bet the DVD copying rate is even lower among those Americans who do not have software on their computers.

Re:Sharing porn...

[LighterShadeOfBlack]

...reminds me of this thing men and women used to do together, before the internet, before the dark times.

Sit around and talk about how they wished there was some way they could share all their porn?

Re:Sharing music

[Anonymous Coward]

horse? Please - don't ever share your porn with me.

Okay, but would you like to borrow some 'music'?

Some people do...

[RingDev]

I'm not sure people share their porn the way they share their music.

Obviously the author has not served in the military.

-Rick

Bad statistics

[bobdotorg]

Overheard in a conversation between an MPAA lobbyist and a US Senator:

That 1.5% statistic is very misleading. According to my client (the MPAA), people's connections have become 12 times faster than dialup, so the real figure is 18%. And as more PC's start to have dual core processors, the MPAA forecasts this number to approach 36%.

Now when you further consider that PC screens have increased from 15" to 24" over the past few years, the figure becomes 92%.

And finally, when the 40% increase in brightness of modern displays is taken into consideration, we see that a whopping 129% of people are downloading movies illegally.

Given this vast recent upswing in piracy rates, we urge you to direct all efforts of the FBI, DHS and CIA towards stopping this national economic threat.

this is only because ...

[non]

MPlayer's man page is too long for most people to read :-)

Disney can go suck DUMBO nuts

[jameskojiro]

They Advertise heavily infront of their DVDs and give you no bleeding option to skip the damn commercials for their next direct to video sequal "Alladin 4: The Jihad against Jafar" or "Cinderella XI: Das Slipper". When will it bleeding well end? Plus 1/2 the stuipid disc is nothing but advertisements, so that the movie has shitty quality and Dumbo is a pixelated mess.

Somone should shoot the mouse and put him out of his misey.

MODERATORS!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Mod parent up. This really frickin' makes sense...

mod parent up

[Anonymous Coward]

mod parent up

Re:Some people do...

[Anonymous Coward]

He was refering to straight porn. ;)

Expert MPAA testimony

[langelgjm]

"As we all know, the internet is 99% porn. This study shows us that this porn accounts for 1 out of every 2 DVD downloads, which means the other 50% of DVD downloads must be pirated Hollywood blockbusters. Now, if 50% of downloads are 99% of the internet, clearly the other 50% of downloads must also be 99% of the internet. This just goes to show that the internet is 99% pirated movies, and this, Congressman, simply must be stopped."

Re:Sharing music

[OWJones]

Make sure your wife's outta the room by 0:36:00, that's when the horse arrives.

If someone borrows a DVD from you, just after midnight you'll send a horse to their place?

You must have a lot of horses.

-jdm

Boner Jams '03...

[robgmills]

Here it is-- Boner Jams '03. Its a mixtape of all my favorite boner scenes in the summer of 2003.

Re:WHAT KIND of IDIOTIC headline is this?

[Xeirxes]

Say what you'd like, but when I see the topic "Some people think that there are more dolphins than whales in the ocean," I'm probably going to click on it and read it....