Pirate Bay sees 'Iron Man 2' ahead of U.S. debut
Found on CNet News on Sunday, 02 May 2010
According to comments by users, the copies available were recorded by people sitting in the theater who videotaped the movie off the screen using handheld cameras.
"This sort of theft is intensely disrespectful and damaging to those who pour their creativity and capital into movies and television," said a spokesman for Viacom, parent company of Paramount Pictures. "It is time responsible governments put an end to it."
Law enforcement authorities have traced the video-cam recording and bootlegging of movies to organized crime.
It is also so easy to trace weapon sales to organized crime. Also blund objects, sticks, pointy objects. Everything you want to make look shady can be traced to it. Money too. There is no need for governmental control; laws are in place already. It is time that the industry changes the way it deals with the new generation of fans; because they will download the movie and still go to the movies.