While the top 20 most
downloaded films
included some prestigious movies like 12 Years a Slave (at number 10) and Gravity (at number four), the majority of the most pirated flicks were largely big blockbuster franchises, adapted from books — Divergent, Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug — superhero sequels and reboots like Godzilla and Robocop, although Excipio was unclear as to how many of the more than 29 million
illegal downloads were for the»87 original.
NYS Senator George Latimer will speak to students regarding the topic; student presentations follow (
including a PowerPoint on Misinformation, skits on Digital Permanence, Social Networking and
Illegal Downloading).
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They use
illegal tactics to obtain information on potential music and movie «pirates» (I use the term loosely, to
include anyone
downloading copyrighted media) in order to sue them for ridiculous amounts of money.
The acronym stands for the Haute Autorité pour la Diffusion des Oeuvres et la Protection des Droits sur Internet (HADOPI), a body which co-ordinates a variety of legal measures against
illegal downloading including sanctions against parents of downloaders.