Pevač Lajonel Riči u BBC-jevom programu Top Gear

Najnovije istraživanje ukazuje na to da broj ljudi koji preko interneta gledaju nelegalno postavljene video fajlove sa popularnim TV programima vrtoglavo raste. Najpopularnije su, za sada, američke serije, ali su milioni ljudi bili zainteresovani i za BBC-jevu emisiju o automobilizmu, "Top Gear".

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Visits to web sites offering illegal access to music and video have nearly doubled over the last year, and increasingly it's television and films which are being sought out.

The media measurement firm Big Champagne has compiled a top ten of illegal downloads. It's dominated by American drama series, with 55 million people downloading episodes of Heroes in the first half of this year. But the BBC's Top Gear is also amongst the most pirated programmes, with hundreds of thousands of people, many in the United States, downloading each episode of the recent series.

Despite the apparent surge in piracy, the researchers say television should not suffer as much damage to its revenues as the music business has faced.

Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC News

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offering illegal access to
omogućiti protivzakonit pristup fajlovima, odnosno snimcima, putem interneta

nearly doubled
skoro se udvostručio

sought out
tragali za nečim, aktivno tražili (s namerom da "skinu" snimke)

compiled
iskombinovali, prikupili (različite informacije) na jedno mesto

it's dominated by
najveći broj ilegalnih "skidanja" je...

amongst the most pirated programmes
jedan od programa koji se najčešće ilegalno kopira

the apparent surge in
očigledan porast broja

suffer as much damage to its revenues
pretrpeti jednaku finansijsku štetu, ostvariti jednako manji profit

faced
morali da se suoče