Paris
- French citizens downloaded 13.5 million movies from file-sharing sites during
May, while French movie theaters sold 12.2 million tickets, Reuters reported,
citing a study by French anti-piracy group Alpa.
"This is a major
phenomenon that could endanger the cinema and audiovisual industry," Alpa
representative Frederic Delacroix told French newspaper Le Figaro.
The study also
found that an average of 10 million movies are downloaded illegally in France
each month, about 66% of them American films and 19% of them are French.
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