Piracy and P2P filesharing
And whether filmmakers could ever benefit from file sharing? One of the most feared developments of the film industry is the disruptive force of the internet and its effects to the film business. Piracy is real and effecting all filmmakers, not just the big studios. Adam Leipzig recently analysed the effect of piracy to 14 films that were screened in Sundance 2014 and 2015 and the results were troubling. All films had at least hundreds of thousands illegal downloads, Whiplash