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Camcording Pirates Threatens Film Industry I have been investigating this problem for over 5 years.

There are two types of camcorder piracy.
Type 1.
A member of the public that goes into a cinema on a Monday afternoon and sits in the middle of the cinema pointing their camcorder at the screen, this was

a Christmas present and is a standard camcorder from any high street electrical shop.
Due to the poor quality of the picture and sound this type of recording is not very valuable to a serious pirate, although it still has some value. If the person is caught, (in the U.K) the odds are nothing will be done apart from being marched out of the cinema.

Type 2.
This is a much more important type of piracy and has become known as 'The Overnight Problem'.
A professional film pirate has a lot of money to invest, he will get himself an expensive camera and recorder. He will have contact with people that have the facility to duplicate large amounts of DVD's from a good digital copy of a film.
How does it work? The pirate would pay about £500 cash to a person from a multiplex cinema that has a set of keys and can get into the cinema overnight. (not bad for a few hours work).
The pirates then have a choice of new films to record, and have plenty of time to set up their camera and would connect the recorder direct to the cinema sound system to get a near perfect picture and sound. The odds of getting caught are very low, as even if someone should query why anyone is in the cinema at that time of night, they would say "they are working on the cinema equipment." Genuine engineers could be working on the equipment at that time of night, so there would be no reason to suspect anything was wrong.

This digital recording could then be duplicated by the thousands in a very short time. Every copy would have as good quality picture and would have 5.1 surround sound as the master copy that was recorded from the cinema screen.
If you were to show these copies on an standard 32" T/V it would be nearly impossible to tell the difference between the pirated copy and a genuine copy.

'The Trevor Macdonald' T/V News and current affairs programme in the UK, ITV Friday 09/12/2005 His show highlighted the millions of pounds that were being made by 'Type 1 piracy', unfortunately he did not mention the more important 'Type 2 piracy' problem. (The Overnight Problem).
We have found a solution to this problem.but the film industry does not seem to take the problem as seriously as you would think. $3 Billion a year seems a lot of money to me.

We have now found a solution to this problem.
For a fraction of one year's losses the problem could be resolved. The cost of supplying and installing the system into a cinema would be about £3500 for a single screen cinema and about £2000 per screen for a 6 screen complex. The equipment would last about 10 years therefore the real cost is about £200 per screen per year. (about the same as the milk bill for the staff's tea and coffee).

A few facts and figures. Film piracy is a enormous money maker in this day and age, in fact the British film industry will lose about £1 billion in the next three years It is not just the big Studios and Distributors that lose out, everyone from the actors to the TAX man lose money.(according to the UK Film Council).
According to the MPAA the American film industry will lose about $3 Billion a Year. What is more worrying, a percentage of this $3 Billion goes to help pay for TERRORISM , DRUGS and ORGANISED CRIME.

From MPAA Camcording Pirates Threatens Film Industry Camcorder piracy is a major threat to US film distributors both at home and abroad. As a result, financial expectations for films have fallen short across all media sectors (e.g. theatrical, home entertainment, international distribution, etc.) and hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue have been lost. More and more, movies are showing up online within days of their theatrical release. In 9 out of 10 cases, the first release is from a camcorded copy; Between May 2002 and May 2003, over 50 major movie titles were stolen by camcording prior to their theatrical release in the U.S.; All our figures and comments can be proven by Official Web Sites, Documentation or by Demonstration

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