Harry Potter meets the Pirates
Found on The Inquirer on Tuesday, 15 June 2004
Despite the best efforts of the film industry, a copy of the latest Wizard flick Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is circulating on the Internet.
The movie moguls took unusual steps to prevent the pirating of this film including giving ushers army style night vision sniper sites to pick out people filming in the darkened cinemas.
However it is clear that the industry's efforts were wasted, as an AVI copy has now appeared on several pirate sites seen by the INQ.
INQ sources in the pirate trade say that the print came from the US, It was probably made by someone who actually had access to a cinema projection booth and filmed it when there was no-one around.
There's no way stopping them. The industry should just accept the facts and try to live with them, instead of bombing people with lawsuits and surveillance in theatres.