Some 59 percent of Americans in a poll said parking in a fire lane is a more serious offense than illegally downloading a movie. “Most people perceive celebrities and studios to be rich already and as a result don’t think of movie downloading as a big deal,” said Kaan Yigit, study director at Solutions Research Group. If that’s the way Americans think about movie downloads, you can only imagine what they think about downloading torrents of TV shows, which originate from free television.
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