Because of the recent buzz surrounding the wildly successful Academy Award sweep The Hurt Locker achieved (a total of six Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director), the movie-going public was eager to see what made this film just so worthy of the film industry’s highest accolades. There were several mediums for interested viewers to watch this film. The first is the most-desired result by the film industry and those who would and will profit from The Hurt Locker: theaters are still screening this film. In addition to tickets sales, the movie can benefit from its sales on DVD and Blu-ray. The last option is to stream or download the film, courtesy of notorious websites such as BitTorrent. According to TorrentFreak, this movie has been downloaded 1 million times since the film scored at the Oscars. Though this number is dishearteningly high, some good may come out of downloading the film. Currently, (and in these trying economic times) viewers like to “preview” content before they invest in it – check a book out of the library before purchasing a copy, playing a free video game demo before ordering it, ripping a CD before supporting the band and buying it. If people are “previewing” The Hurt Locker online, with a sub-par quality and whatever sound their laptop can muster, they may feel compelled to purchase the movie and enjoy the special features – a high-quality visual and sound emission and a commentary by now-elite director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal. The purchase could be considered an investment, and for some, an addition to their collection of remarkable films. This logic may in fact have some validity – DVD sales have skyrocketed and topped several top-seller lists.
TorrentFreak Article (torrentfreak.com/oscar-win-boosts-hurt-lockers-piracy-numbers-100312/)
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