In the UK, movie distributors
have decided to strengthen their crackdown of illegal taping in cinemas by
funding a former police officer, nicknamed "cinema investigator" to help tackle
the problem. This officer will train cinema staff on how to catch these
culprits along with examining past incidents as examples.
The Federation Against Copyright Theft (Fact) aims
to make it clear that with movies being made available worldwide to the cinemas,
this makes even the UK cinemas vulnerable to illegal camcorder footage.
All it takes is one successful copy to be made available online for it to become
rapidly distributed across the world availale for illegal download. They
estimate that film piracy costs cinemas £810 million in lost sales and
admissions as a result of its shows being illegally distributed over the
Internet. Thanks to GristyMcFisty for
letting us know
about the following news:
According to the Beeb, the former police officer will "train cinema staff and examine incidents where recording equipment has been used in cinemas". UK Film Distributors' Association top dog Mark Batey said: "Films have never been more vulnerable to rip-off copying. We believe the appointment is very timely." |
As all it takes is for one successful camcorder recording to be made for the
copy to spread like a virus online, it looks like unless they can tackle every
single cinema in every country showing a given movie title, all it takes is just
one cinema with weak security for this one copy to be made. A very clear
example is Russia's
issue with tackling cinema pirates. It is a bit like putting DRM on
music CDs to stop the music from being released on P2P, since all it takes is
one successful hacker to strip the DRM and release it online for the DRM to
be rendered useless in preventing it from spreading online.
Source: The Register - Internet
