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Consumers performing own bypasses


TORONTO – Consumers do not see downloading movies as a serious offense and are bypassing the existing theatre-DVD-TV video system in ever-increasing numbers, says a new independent study. As the movie industry is trying to find the right business model for Internet distribution for its first-run and catalogue content, new research from Solutions Research Group says American and Canadian consumers are increasingly viewing the movies they download or rip from DVDs on their PCs. * 32 million Americans aged 12+ (18% of the US online population) have downloaded a full-length movie at some point in the past – 20 million...