For the most part this strategy worked to pressure other Western nations to comply and by late 2007 numbers began to favor the copyright holders as worldwide box office numbers climbed to an all-time high of $26.7 billion, nearly 5% more than the 2006 figure of $25.5 billion.[10] Regardless to content and other factors, the MPAA spun this as self-congratulatory and credited efforts to curb file-sh