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Fox Thwarts Potter Internet Piracy
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:47:39 -0500
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Fox Thwarts Potter Internet Piracy Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:27:00 -0800 From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com> Reply-To: dewayne () warpspeed com To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net () warpspeed com>[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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