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1、Unit 1Pirates of the InternetIts no secret that online piracy has decimated the music industry as 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-l
2、ength feature films is a relatively new phenomenon, but its becoming easier and easier to do. The people running Americas movie studios know that if they dont do something-and fast-they could be in the same boat as the record companies. Correspodent: “Whats really at stake for the movie industry wit
3、h all this privacy?” Chernin: “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 you know how many movies are being downloaded today, in o
4、ne day, in the United States?” Chernin: “I think its probably in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions.” Correspondent: “And its only going to grow.” Chernin: “Its only going to grow. Somebody can put a perfect digital copy up on the internet. A perfect digital copy, all right. And with the cli
5、ck of mouse, send out a million copies all over the world, in an instant.”5And its all 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,
6、Lets come up with a challenge. Lets give them five movies, and see if they can find them online. And we all sat around and picked five movies, four of which hadnt been released yet. And then we came back half an hour later. They had found all five movies that we gave them. ” Correspondent: “Even the
7、 ones that hadnt even been released yet?” Chernin: “Even the ones that hadnt even been released yet.” Correspondent: “Did these kids have any sense that they were stealing?” Chernin: “You know its its a weird dichotomy. I think they know its stealing, and I dont think they think its wrong. I think t
8、hey have an attitude of, Its here.” The Internet copy of last years hit Signs, 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?”6Shyamalan: “Two weeks befor
9、e 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, Hey, we have Signs-its not even out yet. And you walk by and you know its illegal.
10、But now, because its the digital age, you can see, like, a clean copy. Its no longer the kind of the sleazy guy in Times Square with the box. Its just, oh, its on this beautiful site, and I have to go, Click.” Correspondent: “How did those movies get on the Internet? How did that happen?” Chernin: “
11、Through an absolute act of theft. Someone steals a print from the editors room; someone steals a print from the person; the composer whos doing the musicabsolute physical theft, steals a print, makes a digital copy, and uploads it.” Correspondent: “And there you go.” Digital copies like this one of
12、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 (stolen) is that people go to there are lots of screenings that happen in this indust
13、ry People go to those screenings with a camcorder, with a digital camcorder, sit in the back, turn the camcorder on”Correspondent: “And record it.” This is one of those recorded-off-the-screen copies of Disneys Pirates of the Caribbean. Not great quality, but not awful either. And while it used to t
14、ake 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, hackers if you will, announce their piracy releases.” Randy Saaf runs a company called Media Defender
15、 that helps movie studios combat online piracy. Correspondent: “Look at this, all these new movies that I havent even seen yet, all here.” Saaf: “ Yep.” Correspondent: “Secondhand Lions that just came out. Sometimes I feel like Im the only person in this country who has never downloaded anything. Bu
16、t maybe there is a few others of us out there. So Im going to ask you to show us Kazaa, thats the biggest downloading site, right?” Saaf: “Right. This is the Kazaa media desktop. Kazaa is the largest peer-to-peer network.” Its called peer-to-peer because computer users are sharing files8with each other, with no middleman. All Kazaa does is provide the software to make that sharing possible. When we went online wit
