Movie Piracy In Nigeria

From a moral standpoint, pirating movies is completely unethical. The actors, directors, and producers who spend much time, much work and money into producing movies get taking advantage off by those engaged in movie piracy. These bootleggers sell the works and monetary expenditure put into producing these movies for a partly price. In places around the world like Nigeria for example; if one makes a movie today on the budget of 2 million nairas, including payment for the actors, in a week or two the same movie will be present in a completion of other films for 100 nairas. The amount of injustice committed when movies are pirated is criminal. The producers of the movies lose money at a vast rate that is in recoverable as the average Nigerian would rather spend 100 naira for entertainment as opposed to 500 naira in an economy in which “According to the latest poverty report by the National Bureau of Statistics [has] about 112 million Nigerians

We see applications like Netflix and Hulu shows the movies of these actors and producers, only to broadcast it to the masses at a cheap price and in some other programs free. Applications like these take away the profit meant to go to the producers and actors. These companies might have done it in a legal way according to the law but in actuality these companies still usurp viewers, thereby usurping the profit of the producers and actors of movies in the long run as these applications garner more followers and the money of these increasing followers compared to the amount of money these actors and producers receive for being sponsored by these companies. What these actors and producers would be getting if people went out to actually go and see the movies and directly recompense these actors for their works without any third party taking up viewership and thereby taking profit would be way more than having a third party who steals viewership and in turn