The Interview has been watched 77.5 million times on Youtube!

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DerNebel said:

spurgeonryan said:
So 6 dollars a rental times 80 million equal......

Sony execs just hired more Korean cyber terrorist to their marketing team!

Plus people who bought it, made this on its way to a billion dollar movie?

"But it’s unclear how many of these represent individuals who paid to rent the film. Users who pay can easily share the link with friends."

So not every one of those 77.5 million views was paid, I hope Sony financials in January/February will gives us more clarity on how much the movie actually made/lost.

Oh and I just read that the 77.5 million include trailer views since the trailer and the full movie apparently have the same youtube link, that should distort the number quite a bit.

I'm pretty sure that's not how it works.  Otherwise, Youtube would barely make any money on movies.  Only one person could rent/buy a movie, then give out the link for all to watch, just killing the point.  I'm pretty sure that if someone gave me a link to the movie, it would just bring me to the page that allows me to rent it myself.