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Unit 1
Pirates of the Internet
no secret that online piracy has decimated the music industry as
It’s
millions of people stopped buying CDs and started stealing 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 something----and fast---they could be in the same boat as the
really at stake for the movie
record companies. Correspodent: “What’s
industry with all this privacy?”　C hernin: “Well, I think, you know, ultimately, our absolute features.” Peter Chernin runs 20th Century Fox, one of the biggest studios in Hollywood. He knows the pirates of the
Internet are gaining on him. Correspont: “Do y ou know how many
movies are being downloaded today, in one day, in the United States?”　
probably in the hundreds of thousands, if not
Chernin: “I t hink it’s
going to grow.”　
Chernin: “It’s Correspondent: “And it’s only
millions.”　
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 million copies all over the world, in an i nstant.”
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all free. If that takes hold, kiss Hollywood goodbye. Chernin
And it’s
between studio moguls and some high
recently organized a “summit”　
school and college kids---the people most likely to be downloading.
come up with a challenge. Let’s give them Chernin: “And we said, ‘Let’ｓ
five movies, and see if they can find them online.’ And we all sat aro and picked five movies, four of which hadn’t been released yet. And then we came back half an hour later. They had found all five movies that we
gave them. ”　C orrespondent: “Even the ones that hadn’t even been
Chernin: “Even the ones that hadn’t even been released
released yet?”　
Correspondent: “Did t hese kids have any sense that they were
yet.”　
dichotomy. I think they
stealing?” Chernin: “You know it’s… it’s a weird
stealing, and I don’t think they think it’s
wrong. I think they
know it’s
have an attitude of, ‘It’s here.’” The Internet copy of last year starring Mel Gibson, was stolen even before director M. Night Shyamalan
could organize the premiere. Correspondent: “The movie was about to be released. When did the first bootleg copy appear?”
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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
---it’s not even out
boxes set up outside and they say, ‘Hey, we have Signs
yet.’ And you walk by and you know it’s illegal. But now, because it digital age, you can see, like, a clean copy. It’s no longer the kind of the
on this
sleazy guy in Times Square with the box. It’s
just, oh, it’s
beautiful site, and I have to go, ‘Click.’” Correspondent: “Ho movies get on the Internet? How did that happen?” Chernin: “Throu
room;
absolute act of theft. Someone steals a print from the editor’s
someone steals a print from the person; the composer who’s doing the music…absolute physical theft, steals a print, makes a digital copy, and
uploads it.” Correspondent: “And there you go.” Digital copies like this
one of The Matrix Reloaded have also been bootlegged from DVDs sent
to reviewers or ad agencies, or circulated among companies that do
special effects, or subtitles. Chernin: “The other way that pre-released
movies end up (stol e n) is that people go to … there are lots of screenings
People go to those screenings with a
that happen in this industry…　
camcorder, with a digital camcorder, sit in the back, turn the camcorder
on…”
Correspondent: “And record it.”　T his is one of those
recorded-off-the-screen copies of Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean. Not
great quality, but not awful either. And while it used to take forever to
download a movie, anyone with a high-speed Internet connection can
now have a full-length film in an hour or two.
Saaf: “Well, this is just one of many websites where basically people,
Randy Saaf runs a
hackers if you will, announce their piracy releases.”　
company called Media Defender that helps movie studios combat online
piracy.Correspondent: “Look at this, all these new movies that I haven
even seen yet, all here.” Saaf: “ Yep.” Correspondent: “Secondh that just came out. Sometimes I feel like I’m the only person in this
country who has never downloaded anything. But maybe there is a few
others of us out there. So I’m going to ask you to show us Kazaa, that’s
Saaf: “Right. This is the Kazaa
the biggest downloading site, right?”　
It’s called
media desktop. Kazaa is the largest peer-to-peer network.”　
peer-to-peer because computer users are sharing files
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with each other, with no middleman. All Kazaa does is provide the
software to make that sharing possible. When we went online with Randy
Saaf, nearly four million other Kazaa users were there with us, sharing
cuments, images, software, and
every kind of digital file. Saaf: “Audio, do
video. If you wanted a movie, you would click on the video section, and
then you would type in a search phrase. And basically what this is doing
now, it is asking the people on the peer-to-peer network, ‘Who has
Within seconds, 191 computers sent an answer: “We
Finding Memo’?”　
have it.” This is Finding Memo, crisp picture and sound, downloaded free
from Kazaa a month before its release for video rental or sale. If you
don’t want to watch it on a little computer screen, you don’t have the newest computers, you can just “burn” it onto a DVD and watch it on
a dagger pointed right at the heart of
your big-screen TV. 5.And that’s
Hollywood.Chernin: “Where movies make the bulk of their money is on
DVD and home videos. 50 percent of the revenues for any movie come
out of home video…” Correspondent: “15 percent?” Chernin: “50 so that if piracy occurs and it wipes out your home video profits or
ultimately your television profits, you are out of business. No movies will
Even if movies did get made, Night Shyamalan says that
get made.”　
wouldn’t be any good, because p rofits would be negligible, so budgets
would shrink dramatically. Shyamalan: “And s lowly it will degrade
Rosso: “Technology always wins.
what’s possible in that art form.”　
Always. You can’t shut it down.” Wayne Rosso is Hollywood’s enemy They call him a pirate, but officially he’s the president of Grokster,
another peer-to-peer network that works just like Kazaa. Correspondent:
“Ok, I have downloaded your software.” Rosso: “Right.” Correspondent:
Correspondent: “So
free.”　
“Ok, did I pay to do that?”　
Rosso: “No, it’s
. We
who pays you? How do you make money?” Rosso: “We’re like radio
Correspondent: “And how many people use
are advertising-supported.”　
Rosso: “Ten million.”　
Correspondent: “Ten million people Grokster?”　
Correspondent: “Every month, ten
Rosso: “A m onth.”　
have used it.”　
-huh, uh-huh. And growing.”
million people?” Rosso: “Uh
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Correspondent: “Use it to download music, movies, software, video
Rosso: “I w ill assume. See, we have no way of
games, what else?”　。