2016: Once again, piracy was so bad that the movie industry smashed all box office records
by Cory Doctorow from on (#27DAD)
As has been the case for many consecutive years, the movie industry beat all box-office records in 2016, earning $11.4B at the US box office (while simultaneously insisting that piracy was destroying the industry and demanding the right to control and redesign the internet to save itself from this existential threat).