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Movie and TV piracy have always been a thing in Hollywood. From guys selling DVDs on street corners to the choppy waters of ...
Here’s one solution to the nagging problem of movie piracy — release films in theaters and on DVD on the same day. Frankly, it’s already happening. Less than 24 hours after its th… ...
In a bid to stop rampant illegal copying of DVDs, Warner Bros., Disney and Sony are teaming with a number of tech companies to design new technology that will limit piracy on the next generation ...
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Over the last year, piracy has risen from 30% to 60% of the total Spanish DVD broadband/hard goods market, estimated Peter Smith, prexy of Universal Pictures Intl.
The U.S. film industry loses $3.5 billion a year in revenues from analog piracy alone, Valenti said. But with digital, "you can make a thousand copies and the image is just as pure," Valenti said.
According to Isikaku, piracy was eating into his profits back in 2005, when he estimates he lost N10,000,000 ($68,000) because of illegally copied DVDs.
A new survey suggests that DVD piracy is on the increase in the UK. Armed with a wheelbarrow of scepticism, we bring you the results from an analysis conducted by Futuresource Consulting: 36% of Brits ...
Nevertheless, Mountain View, Calif.-based Kaleidescape ran afoul of the DVD Copy Control Association, the group that controls the anti-piracy technology on Hollywood DVDs.
Last week our investigators bought DVD copies of recent titles such as: Troy, The Passion of the Christ, Shrek 2, Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Day after Tomorrow, Elf, Kill Bill 2 ...
It is often wrongly assumed that the pirate DVDs industry is "victimless crime". But it not only hurts the creative industry but it is estimated that within the UK criminals earn approximately £600m ...
Teenager cleared in DVD piracy case By Lara Weber and Chicago Tribune | Chicago Tribune PUBLISHED: January 8, 2003 at 1:00 a.m. | UPDATED: August 21, 2021 at 8:25 a.m.