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TorrentFreak: The World War II drama Fury was downloaded 500,000 times since the Nov. 25 cyberattack on Sonys film-and-TV studio, according to the news site TorrentFreak. The leaks, which also include the upcoming Still Alice, and Mr. Turner, will draw viewers from unit that has been one of Sonys most reliable profit-makers, with gross ticket revenue up 13 per cent this year, according to Box Office Mojo, according to The Toronto Star, Canada. The illegal downloads of Fury illustrates the economic damage hackers can inflict on film studios. The scourge facing Hollywood, Silicon Valley and investors costs the global economy as much as $575 billion annually, according to a study published in June by McAfee, a security-software maker owned by Intel Corp., and the Center for Strategic and International Studies and LOS Sony Corp. will see its holiday box office sales blunted after Brad Pitts Fury and the unreleased Annie were stolen by hackers and leaked online. There will be an impact on Sony Pictures box office revenue for this year due to hacking and the leaks, said Hideki Yasuda, a Tokyo-based analyst for Ace Research Institute. It will be a one-time impact and wont drag on too long. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.