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How Movies Enter the Internet
posted by mpawlo on Friday January 30, @07:14AM
from the on-a-screen-near-you dept.
Digital Entertainment Warner Bros has, according to a Wired story, filed suit in the District Court in Los Angeles, claiming that an actor received "screener" copies of films The Last Samurai and Mystic River and gave them to a friend, who then made digital versions and placed them on the Internet. Screener versions are common in peer-to-peer networks and a growing problem for movie studios and other copyright proprietors.

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    bullshit argument by movie industry (Score:0)
    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 30, @01:47PM (#1461)
    I downloaded Matrix 2 and 3 before it hit the theater. I watched both in the theater several times. And, yes, I *still* bought the Matrix DVDs.

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