[IP] Fox Thwarts Potter Internet Piracy
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Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Fox Thwarts Potter Internet Piracy
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:27:00 -0800
From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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[Note: I thought that I'd check this story out to see what was true
about it. It seems that no copy of the film made it to the Darknet
before it opened on Friday. However, a camcorded copy did appear
Friday night. This copy was quickly tagged as being poor in quality,
even though it clocked it at 2.3 GB in size. A fairly high quality
copy from a group known as "Maven" appeared early Sunday morning and
was 1.2 GB in size. So it would appear that Fox wasn't as successful
as it thought. The Internet piracy arms race continues. DLH]
Fox Thwarts Potter Internet Piracy
<http://imdb.com/news/sb/2005-11-21/#4>
Intense efforts by 20th Century Fox to prevent bootleggers from
camcording Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire appeared to pay off
over the weekend, with no credible accounts of online availability of
the film being reported. According to numerous reports, Fox
distributed thousands of night-vision goggles to theater staffs
throughout the world and promised rewards to any employee catching a
moviegoer in the act of camcording the movie. No one was nabbed. (A
British report circulated on several websites over the weekend
claiming that the film had made it onto the Internet even before it
had been released in theaters. The report, which was dismissed by the
mainstream press, quoted an unnamed source as saying that money
derived from sales of the pirated DVDs "help to fund organized crime
like drugs and prostitution.")
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