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Unit 1

Pirates of the Internet

It ' no secret that online piracy has decimated the music industry as millio ns of people stopped buying CDs and started steali ng their favorite songs by downloading them from the internet. Now the hign-tech thieves are coming after Hollywood. Illegal downloading of full-length feature films is a relatively new phenomenon, but it ' s becoming easier and easier to do. The people running America 's movie studios know that

if they don ' t do someth-ingnd fast---they could be in the same boat as the record companies. Correspodent: ____________________“ What' s really at stake for the movie industry with all this privacy ” Chernin: “ Well, I think, you know, ultimately, our absolute features. ” Peter Chernin runs 20th Cen tury Fox, one of the biggest studios in Hollywood. He knows the pirates of the In ternet are gaining on him. Corresp ont: “ Dcyou know how many movies are being dow nl oaded today: in one day: in the Un ited States ” Chernin：“think it ' psobably in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions ”Correspondent: “Andt 'osly going to grow. ”Chernin: “It ' s only going to grow. ^Somebody can put a perfect digital copy up on the internet. A perfect digital copy, all right. And with the click of mouse, send out a millio n copies all over the world, in an nsta nt. ”

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And it ' as free. If that takes hold, kiss Hollywood goodbye. Chernin recently organized

a “ summit between studio moguls and some high

school and college kids---the people most likely to be downloading.

Chernin: “And we said, ‘Let 's come up with a challenge. Let 's g five movies, and see if they can find them online. ' And we all sat aro and picked five movies, four of which hadn 'bteen released yet. And then we came back half an hour later. They had found all five movies that we gave them. ” Correspondent: “Even the ones that hadn 't even been released yet ”Chernin: “ Eventhe ones that hadn 'et ven been released yet. ” Correspondent: “Did these kids have any sense that they were stealing ” Chernin: “You know it ' s•…it ' s a theikd dichotomy. I

they know it 'stsealing, and I don'tthink they think it 'wsrong. I think they have an attitude of, ‘It 's here. '” The Internet copy of last year Signs, starring Mel Gibson, was stolen even before director M. Night

Shyamalan could organize the premiere. Correspondent: “Themovie was about to be released. When did the first bootleg copy appear ”6

Shyamalan: “Two weeks before it or three weeks before it. Before the

Internet age, when somebody bootlegged a movie, the only outlet they had was to see it to those vendors on Times Square, where they had the boxes set up outside and they say, ‘Heyw, e have Signs---it 's neovt en out yet. ' And you walk by and you know it

's illegal. But now, because it the digital age, you can see, like, a clean copy. Its no longer the kind'of the sleazy guy