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A 5 page paper which examines the significant impact pirated movies has on the entertainment industry, including movies, rentals, etc. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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film industry (Ripley et al, 2004). After all, entertainment is their business. But their concerns are legitimate. Video (and also music) pirates have attacked the profits received
by the entertainment industry with a vengeance. Instead of simply completing a film project, then marketing it for distribution with nothing more than select previews and trailer teasers to
be shown prior to release, studio chiefs and administrative personnel must now add the title of investigator to their list of responsibilities. They must monitor the Internet for any
movie leaks and some must even wear "night-vision goggles" to detect camcorders in darkened theaters (Ripley et al, 2004, p. 56). The severity of the pirated movie crisis was
clearly evident when Warner Bros. released the highly touted $140 million Tom Cruise epic, The Last Samurai, to 500 theaters for a sneak preview on November 29, 2003 (Ripley et
al, 2004). Knowing that such a film story would be a popular target for pirates, Warner Bros. spared no expense to protect their investment with the highest security measures.
The prints were hand-delivered by 1,000 security guards to top-secret projection sites; filmgoers were scanned with metal detectors to ensure they were not carrying any copying devices; camera phones
were immediately confiscated; officials policed the movie aisles in search of a camcorder that might have managed to escape detection (Ripley et al, 2004). Despite all of these precautions
and costly additional expenditures, within twenty-four hours after its national release, The Last Samurai found its way onto the Internet, having been pirated by an online bootleg operation known as
MPT, which also boasts an online film arsenal that includes Paycheck, Big Fish, and the Academy Award winning blockbuster The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Ripley
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