The never ending story but now movies, piracy. Currently the US entertainment industry is fighting hard against music pirates, but also movie piracy is getting more and more attention of them.
Movie theathers will now start to show public service announcements before movies that warn against copyright infringement
The next battle in the entertainment industry's war against online swapping of movies will soon be waged in theaters. A leading theater chain has agreed to run public service announcements before movies that warn against copyright infringement. |
The spots say downloading movies instead of buying a ticket or a video would hurt the industry's behind-the-scenes workers, including makeup artists and custodians, 500,000 movies a day are downloaded illegally, calling the Internet "the world's largest copy machine."
"Stealing is stealing is stealing, whether it's done with sleight of hand by sticking something in a pocket or it's done with the click of a mouse,"
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Source: CNN/Sci-Tech
