I can't be the only one who doesn't idolize them? If they even exist. I would not be surprised if their true self has been long dead, and they are just another government infiltrated puppet. Just like Occupy Wall Street. Sure there are probably some honest members, but I feel like the ring leaders are just controlled by the CIA or NSA. Now days anyways. Any thoughts?
or the "new" anon whit their flashmobing kids and threats that never comes reality because they are unable to hack in the 1st place.
what about these kids is it that you see them as something seriously?
For the most part, no real agenda. But when they do gain one, they know how to control it.
when they do have one, they can't realize it until 1 of the older guys walks in to actually start it.
and they know how to control it? they barely can control themselves. it are just a few elite that are capable of actually doing something. and my bet is that these elite people have more life then just wasting time being anonymous on i-net all day long. only these few guys know how a agenda works. the rest are their cover.
Yet these corporations make it out as if it's a bane to their existence.
One credible study by the Institute for Policy Innovation pegs the annual harm at $12.5 billion dollars in losses to the U.S. economy as well as more than 70,000 lost jobs and $2 billion in lost wages to American workers.
Anonymous will evidently be a bunch of fat, emotional children with dead end jobs. How else do you get the time to learn skills like that to that level and not use it as a job?
One credible study by the Institute for Policy Innovation pegs the annual harm at $12.5 billion dollars in losses to the U.S. economy as well as more than 70,000 lost jobs and $2 billion in lost wages to American workers.
You sure it isn't exaggerating or possibly out right lying about piracy as the cause of the loss?
"[i]In 2005, the MPAA claimed that worldwide losses to movie piracy amounted to about $18.2 billion, with $6.1 billion of that missing revenue accounted forbyMPAA affiliates alone. The difficulty in measuring piracy is that it is obviously illegal, making data collection andparticipant surveys skewed in results. In addition, the movie industry is a complex system, and any given movie has a large variability of success factors which amount to unpredictability in the expected revenue of motion pictures. This paper seeks to investigate how the speed of internet piracy affects industry revenues by creating a model for film revenue regressed against the number of days from theatrical release to first piracy leak, first screener leak, and first DVD leak, amongst several control variables. When including control variables, the impact of piracy is found to be negligible, particularly in comparison to the production budget variable. Without these controls, significance is found for days until first piracy leak and screener leak, implying the more days until first piracy leak the lower revenues will be and that more days until first screener leak leads to higher revenues,t(124)=-2.91,p
Some reason it's not letting me post the source. Here is the abstract again and the title of the study is "The Growing Threat of Internet Piracy in the Movie Industry: The Effect of RapidPirated Leaks on Motion Picture Revenues"
In 2005, the MPAA claimed that worldwide losses to movie piracy amounted to about $18.2 billion, with $6.1 billion of that missing revenue accounted forbyMPAA affiliates alone. The difficulty in measuring piracy is that it is obviously illegal, making data collection andparticipant surveys skewed in results. In addition, the movie industry is a complex system, and any given movie has a large variability of success factors which amount to unpredictability in the expected revenue of motion pictures. This paper seeks to investigate how the speed of internet piracy affects industry revenues by creating a model for film revenue regressed against the number of days from theatrical release to first piracy leak, first screener leak, and first DVD leak, amongst several control variables. When including control variables, the impact of piracy is found to be negligible, particularly in comparison to the production budget variable. Without these controls, significance is found for days until first piracy leak and screener leak, implying the more days until first piracy leak the lower revenues will be and that more days until first screener leak leads to higher revenues,t(124)=-2.91,p
