<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>astura</author><text>American box office results are far from the only source of revenue for movies. Their is foreign box office, DVD&amp;#x2F;Blueray sales, digital sales, digital rentals, streaming fees, and broadcast fees.&lt;p&gt;In Blockbuster&amp;#x27;s heyday their revenue &lt;i&gt;alone&lt;/i&gt; surpassed American box office sales.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ckastner</author><text>It never ceases to amaze me how much influence the MPAA has.&lt;p&gt;Movies, while extremely popular, don&amp;#x27;t generate &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt; much money: in 2016, total box office results in the US were under $12bn [1]. That&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;the entire industry&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Apple alone makes that much money in three weeks&amp;#x27; time.&lt;p&gt;Amazing, that you can apply such pressure to politics, with so little.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.statista.com&amp;#x2F;statistics&amp;#x2F;187069&amp;#x2F;north-american-box-office-gross-revenue-since-1980&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.statista.com&amp;#x2F;statistics&amp;#x2F;187069&amp;#x2F;north-american-bo...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How the US Pushed Sweden to Take Down the Pirate Bay</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/how-the-us-pushed-sweden-to-take-down-the-pirate-bay-171212/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ekianjo</author><text>&amp;gt; Movies, while extremely popular, don&amp;#x27;t generate that much money: in 2016, total box office results in the US were under $12bn [1]. That&amp;#x27;s the entire industry.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s underestimated since it&amp;#x27;s a global business, plus they there&amp;#x27;s a very long tail for every movie to turn a profit, DVD&amp;#x2F;BR releases, TV, and online reselling, renting, etc... and the fact movies remain their property for 75 years+, and for some companies like Disney they retain the copyright forever, and keep sellings goods like cupcakes as well.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ckastner</author><text>It never ceases to amaze me how much influence the MPAA has.&lt;p&gt;Movies, while extremely popular, don&amp;#x27;t generate &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt; much money: in 2016, total box office results in the US were under $12bn [1]. That&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;the entire industry&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Apple alone makes that much money in three weeks&amp;#x27; time.&lt;p&gt;Amazing, that you can apply such pressure to politics, with so little.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.statista.com&amp;#x2F;statistics&amp;#x2F;187069&amp;#x2F;north-american-box-office-gross-revenue-since-1980&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.statista.com&amp;#x2F;statistics&amp;#x2F;187069&amp;#x2F;north-american-bo...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How the US Pushed Sweden to Take Down the Pirate Bay</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/how-the-us-pushed-sweden-to-take-down-the-pirate-bay-171212/</url></story>