Internet Piracy continues and now filmakers are being targeted, the Industries best efforts to thwart it are being hampered according to this report…

Films being presented at Deauville, Venice and other festivals are no longer so exclusive: many are already available in pirated versions online in a trend threatening the whole cinema industry, according to a French subsidiary of a major US distributor.
Most of the movies shown in the festivals, Deauville and Venice at the moment, have already been pirated and are already on line, Camille Trumer, the head of UIP-France, told AFP.
He said the phenomenon was worsening despite the industrys efforts to stem it, and it was being practised at different levels and with different techniques.
It goes from young Internet users swapping video files of films recorded using cameras hidden during cinema screenings, right up to professionals who illegally duplicate a movie thousands of times to make money.

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