{"id":70,"date":"2014-02-14T12:42:29","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T20:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benchiu.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/?p=70"},"modified":"2019-04-16T14:15:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T22:15:04","slug":"thats-a-lot-of-pirating-68-of-europeans-download-or-stream-movies-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benchiu.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/2014\/02\/14\/thats-a-lot-of-pirating-68-of-europeans-download-or-stream-movies-for-free\/","title":{"rendered":"That\u2019s a lot of pirating: 68% of Europeans download or stream movies for free"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gigaom2.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/screen-shot-2014-02-12-at-10-48-55-am.png?w=708&amp;h=394\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A study from the European Commission finds huge numbers of people streaming and downloading movies for free. <br> <br>How much illegal streaming and downloading is going on in the European Union? A report on film-watching habits released last week by the European Commission suggests that it\u2019s quite a lot. 4,608 people ages 4 to 50 from 10 European countries were surveyed. Nearly all \u2014 97 percent \u2014 say they watch movies at least occasionally. 68 percent of them say they download or stream movies for free, and about half of that group (34 percent of respondents overall) do so weekly\u2026. <br> <br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/gigaom.com\/2014\/02\/12\/thats-a-lot-of-pirating-68-of-europeans-download-or-stream-movies-for-free\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/gigaom.com\/2014\/02\/12\/thats-a-lot-of-pirating-68-of-europeans-download-or-stream-movies-for-free\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study from the European Commission finds huge numbers of people streaming and downloading movies for free. How much illegal streaming and downloading is going on in the European Union? A report on film-watching habits released last week by the European Commission suggests that it\u2019s quite a lot. 4,608 people ages 4 to 50 from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/benchiu.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/2014\/02\/14\/thats-a-lot-of-pirating-68-of-europeans-download-or-stream-movies-for-free\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;That\u2019s a lot of pirating: 68% of Europeans download or stream movies for free&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benchiu.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benchiu.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benchiu.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benchiu.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benchiu.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/benchiu.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/benchiu.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benchiu.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benchiu.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benchiu.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}