Film Industry Targets Pirates

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The British film industry is to join forces with the government in a new task force to fight UK film pirates, it has been announced. The sale of bootleg videos and DVDs is a growing problem, up 80% in the last year, according to the Federation Against Copyright Theft. That means piracy has cost the UK film industry £400m in the last 12 months, the research said. It was a "direct attack" on the jobs of 50,000 people in the industry, said UK Film Council director Nigel Green, who will chair the Anti-Piracy Taskforce.
Illegal copies of blockbusters like Tomb Raider 2, Terminator 3 and Pirates of the Caribbean have appeared on sale before their cinema releases.

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[Gre1]

They also know about the Matrix just released on BT. oh no BT is getting in the news more & more

[SodiumChloride]

it will be a while before anti piracy groups can shift their full attention to bit torrent. By the time that happens, most video games will be too big to download anyway :D Don't know about movies though

[Aimless6]

Ripped DVD&#39;s of TR2 being sold on the corner outside of the Premiere party, and they worry about the low bandwith versions on KaZaA ????? Boy, do they have their priorities wrong. <_<

[Gre1]

But BT is one thing that u really can&#39;t stop like if u shut down a major site another will just open plus people have their own trackers which can&#39;t really be found that easy so BT is here to stay for a while.