Re:Google ordered to help Marvel hunt for 'Avengers' trailer...
by beagle3 on Saturday November 08, 2014 @11:36AM
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> Expandables 3 bombed in theatres after a high-definition version was posted on sites that traffic in pirated films.
The movie quality is never to blame, of course. When Gigli flopped, it was because the horrible audience texted to warn their friends after seeing the first showing[0]
If the courts were courts of facts, inference and justice, I would have expected the court to demand statistically significant proof that leaks cause a disaster. That would require showing that more leaked movie did bad than non-leaked movies did well. But the courts seem to rarely care about statistical plausibility in these issues.
The movie quality is never to blame, of course. When Gigli flopped, it was because the horrible audience texted to warn their friends after seeing the first showing[0]
If the courts were courts of facts, inference and justice, I would have expected the court to demand statistically significant proof that leaks cause a disaster. That would require showing that more leaked movie did bad than non-leaked movies did well. But the courts seem to rarely care about statistical plausibility in these issues.
[0] http://news-beta.slashdot.org/story/03/08/19/1918243/movie-i...