INFO/NYT: Motion Pictures: the Next Online Piracy Frontier

From: David P. Dillard <jwne[_at_]astro.ocis.temple.edu>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 09:58:52 -0400 (EDT)

     MP3 and MPEG are back in the news with a New York Times article
(excerpt and link below) that outlines the role piracy is shaping up to
play with motion pictures on the internet with MP3 and MPEG playing key enabling roles.

Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584

jwne[_at_]astro.temple.edu

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Source: New York Times (NYT)
Author: STEVE WILSON
Title: Online Piracy: From Music to Film Illegal Copies of `The

         Phantom Menace' and Other Films Are Gaining a Wider 
         Audience Online

Source Date: July 29, 1999
Resource Type: News Article
Description/Keywords: Online Piracy/Misuse, Motion Pictures, MP3,

         MPEG, Growth
URL: Listed Below Article Summary

July 29, 1999

Online Piracy: From Music to Film
Illegal Copies of `The Phantom Menace' and Other Films Are Gaining a Wider Audience Online

By STEVE WILSON

     One recent Friday evening, an employee in a small New York new-media company enjoyed his own private screening of "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me." The film's sound fell somewhere between hollow and muffled. The picture, washed out and slightly murky, looked like a videotape copy of a public access television show.

But the one-man audience wasn't too disappointed, considering that he didn't pay to see the film in a theater; he had downloaded and played a pirate version on his desktop.

"I'm not going to see this in the theater -- it's funny, but not that funny," said the employee, who asked that his name not be used because, by downloading an illegal copy of the "Austin Powers" sequel, he is breaking copyright laws and he does not want to incur the wrath of the film's producers.

An abstracted citation for this story will be archived in an edition of E-Carm News at http://www.ecarm.org/

Full Story May Be Read At:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/07/circuits/articles/29pira.html Received on Thu Jul 29 1999 - 13:59:29 GMT