January 04, 2005

More Movie Piracy Tidbits

Associated Press also looks under the covers of movie piracy culture. Sounds like virtual gangs who are ruffling up their pride feathers to me.

For these online bootleggers, who authorities say represent the top of a distribution pyramid for pirated movies, software and music, it's all about the bragging rights for being first to copy a hot title or releasing the best-quality replica... there are a lot of similarities with the drug war," said David Israelite, chairman of the U.S. Justice Department's Intellectual Property Task Force."You never really are going to eliminate the problem, but what you hope to do is stop its growth." [Thanks Russell]