Studios are trying a few different strategies to slow the growth of internet theft. They are starting online services that make it easy to acquire their films over the internet legally. Much of the illegal online movie streaming sites are provided from other countries around the world. Making it difficult for authorities to close those web sites; however, they continue to close the sites down with time. People caught distributing illegal copies of films are charged with digital piracy and sued for loss of profits. Digital piracy is not only happening in America it is worldwide. In Erbil, Iraq, at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair a ninth-grade student by the name of Hadaia Azad Ezzulddin presented research she had conducted that uses infrared lights in movie theaters to degrade the quality of any movies recorded. According to the article “Fighting Theater Pirates” in Information Science & Technology Abstracts “Sure enough, she showed, a pirated movie included odd stripes or spots if it had been recorded while the LEDs were on”
Studios are trying a few different strategies to slow the growth of internet theft. They are starting online services that make it easy to acquire their films over the internet legally. Much of the illegal online movie streaming sites are provided from other countries around the world. Making it difficult for authorities to close those web sites; however, they continue to close the sites down with time. People caught distributing illegal copies of films are charged with digital piracy and sued for loss of profits. Digital piracy is not only happening in America it is worldwide. In Erbil, Iraq, at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair a ninth-grade student by the name of Hadaia Azad Ezzulddin presented research she had conducted that uses infrared lights in movie theaters to degrade the quality of any movies recorded. According to the article “Fighting Theater Pirates” in Information Science & Technology Abstracts “Sure enough, she showed, a pirated movie included odd stripes or spots if it had been recorded while the LEDs were on”