{"id":645827,"date":"2013-03-07T22:51:56","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T03:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=362768"},"modified":"2013-03-07T22:51:56","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T03:51:56","slug":"study-megaupload-shutdown-boosted-movie-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/645827","title":{"rendered":"Study: Megaupload shutdown boosted movie sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/07\/megaupload-shutdown-movie-sales-362768\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"663\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/santa_dotcom.png?w=650&amp;h=663&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Megaupload Shutdown Movie Sales\" title=\"Kim Dotcom\" \/><\/a><\/center>It looks like the entertainment industry may have gotten its money&#8217;s worth after <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/01\/19\/megaupload-com-shut-down-founder-charged-with-violating-piracy-laws\/\">law enforcement officials shut down Kim Dotcom&#8217;s Megaupload last year<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324034804578344551047272218.html\"><em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em> reports<\/a> that movie sales increased significantly after Megaupload went offline, according to new study conducted by\u00a0Wellesley College assistant professor of economics Brett Danaher and Carnegie Mellon University professor Michael D. Smith. The two researchers say that &#8220;shutting down Megaupload and Megavideo caused some customers to shift from cyberlocker-based piracy to purchasing or renting through legal digital channels,&#8221; contradicting earlier studies that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/02\/09\/megaupload-shutdown-did-nothing-to-slow-piracy-study-finds\/\">suggested shutting down the site did little to lessen online piracy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/07\/megaupload-shutdown-movie-sales-362768\/?utm_source=more-link&#038;utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/cK16AxGYEzg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the entertainment industry may have gotten its money&#8217;s worth after law enforcement officials shut down Kim Dotcom&#8217;s Megaupload last year. The Wall Street Journal reports that movie sales increased significantly after Megaupload went offline, according to new study conducted by\u00a0Wellesley College assistant professor of economics Brett Danaher and Carnegie Mellon University professor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}