Movie Piracy Crackdown

"Movies, movies, get your movies!" Instead of newspapers its movies? Movies on the streets of New York City can range from $4 to $6 dollars; or you can get a special deal 2 for the price of one. Why is it so cheap and how can they afford to sell movies that hasn't been released on DVD?

Millions of dollars will be made illegally this year because of pirated movies. The most popular one right now is from the sellout Spiderman 3. These DVDs aren't that great and not very high in quality but it gets the money flowing. Pirated DVDs are usually recorded in the theater by someone with a camcorder and then later copied to thousands of discs to be sold on the street. Cheap copies of such movies make a booming business. Copies can be made worldwide within 24 to 48 hours.

Film industries claim counterfeit cost them at least $6 billion a year and still growing. Police nowadays are trying to break the sellers and throw anyone in jail said Inspector Brien O'Neil of the New York Police who goes after bootleggers. They are made with one copy from the theater and produced in mass numbers with computer towers and disc producers in one room.

Now New York City passed a new law making it easier to arrest and give the illegal sellers jail time. There are Federal Anti-Piracy statues but none of them are really followed, so it's about time that the police take matters into their own hands.

There are site on the Web that offers rewards for soliciting piracy and offering rewards. Piracy is such an important issue today that many people tend to crackdown on the issue by letting the word out and sending out letters and posters to stop it. It affects movie producers and script writes because instead of paying the full price to buy or watch a movie, you're basically watching it for free and that's where most of the money comes into play.

There are more ways than before to make a pirated DVD and it is getting worse. Theater owners are being more vigilant and not allowing anyone with big bags to pass through the booths. But if you imagine how many theaters there are worldwide it's almost impossible to stop piracy. The only thing is for the customer, you, to not buy it.