Fox Thwarts Potter Internet Piracy

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Subject:        Fox Thwarts Potter Internet Piracy
Date:   Mon, 21 Nov 2005 21:16:49 -0600
From:   Jon Urdan <jonu () preventsys com>
To:     dave () farber net, dewayne () warpspeed com



Dave -

You have a fair number of media types on this list that can say for sure,
but I am close to certain that Harry Potter is distributed by Warner Bros,
not Fox.  May call into question the accuracy of the rest of the report.

Jon

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Subject:        [Dewayne-Net] Fox Thwarts Potter Internet Piracy
Date:   Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:27:00 -0800
From:   Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
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[Note:  I thought that I'd check this story out to see what was true  
about it.  It seems that no copy of the film made it to the Darknet  
before it opened on Friday.  However, a camcorded copy did appear  
Friday night.  This copy was quickly tagged as being poor in quality,  
even though it clocked it at 2.3 GB in size.  A fairly high quality  
copy from a group known as "Maven" appeared early Sunday morning and  
was 1.2 GB in size. So it would appear that Fox wasn't as successful  
as it thought.   The Internet piracy arms race continues.  DLH]

Fox Thwarts Potter Internet Piracy

<http://imdb.com/news/sb/2005-11-21/#4>

	Intense efforts by 20th Century Fox to prevent bootleggers from  
camcording Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire appeared to pay off  
over the weekend, with no credible accounts of online availability of  
the film being reported. According to numerous reports, Fox  
distributed thousands of night-vision goggles to theater staffs  
throughout the world and promised rewards to any employee catching a  
moviegoer in the act of camcording the movie. No one was nabbed. (A  
British report circulated on several websites over the weekend  
claiming that the film had made it onto the Internet even before it  
had been released in theaters. The report, which was dismissed by the  
mainstream press, quoted an unnamed source as saying that money  
derived from sales of the pirated DVDs "help to fund organized crime  
like drugs and prostitution.")

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