If French filmmakers aren't in panic mode now, they ought to be -- or so says an anti-piracy organization.
More people downloaded movies in May than bought tickets to see movies in France, according to Alpa, a French trade group. An estimated 13.5 million people downloaded movies (illegally) during the month while ticket sales for the same period reportedly totaled 12.2 million.
"This is a major phenomenon that could endanger the cinema and audiovisual industry," Alpa representative Frederic
Delacroix told Le Figaro.
Still, it's not clear how many of those downloads -- if any -- resulted in lost ticket sales; nor is it clear if any of the downloaded movies were actually available in the theater.
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