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26 November 2012

Pirated Movies

Introduction

One of the increasing dilemmas of the entertainment industry is the piracy of movies. It is undoubtedly unethical to pirate movies as it leads to criminal and illegal activity, which widens beyond piracy of movies, mainly because it steals wealth from the economic system of a country, as well as it leads to unemployment; although, the ones who consider movies piracy is acceptable and think that if it is simply available, therefore, acceptable.

Discussion

With the increase in internet users contributing in piracy of movie, this creates many users who no longer need to purchase a DVD or go to the movie theatre. Movie piracy has increased in the last years making it convenient to find releases on box office with a single click on PC. This leads to a perception that stealing dollars from producers of movie is fine as they find it is okay and there is nothing wrong with it. Even though, there are outcomes for downloading patented substance, it is almost not possible to act against each consumer who is downloading a certain movie. It is more important to make pirated content unable than punishing those who downloaded the content. In a recent study carried out among 3600 users of internet in about 9 countries, it is accounted by US Motion Picture Association, which 24 percent of internet users have engaged in downloading a movie on the internet, as well as 17 percent of users who had not spoke they anticipate to begin within a upcoming year (Pruitt). Internet users can effortlessly download a movie within couple of hours by typing the movie name into a search engine. This way less costly and more convenient as compared to buying a movie ticket and going to theatre, it must not be astonishing that many individuals are engaged in such criminal activities. It only took about seventy-two days before 2 years to get a HD version of “Finding Nemo.” Nowadays, movie piracy across the globe becomes common that box office release movie will be available within few hours release (Jason Ho & Weinberg, 252-260).

For example, Spider-Man 2, last summer's blockbuster was available on internet within 7 hours of its first show. This reveals that piracy of movie is increasing day by day, and it is vital to take decision against movie piracy. With the pirated movies availability being so great as to buy the bootlegs, or cannot put all culpability on ones who download files. The dilemma arises because of ones who make these pirated movies accessible, such as vcdquality.com, telesync or CAM.

This refers that the movie was recorded in the movie theatre with a camera. Other common mean of movie piracy is by the screener copying that is a pre-release for use of promotion. By both means permit right to use to a film; whereas, this activity drastically affect the sales of box office. The MPAA approximates that costs of piracy in a year was about $3.5 million in home video rentals ...