Today it is harder to find a store or someone on the streets selling pirated movies. Many of these people who sell pirated movies are now turning to the internet. Shari C. Hyman, director of the mayor’s office of special enforcement, tried to buy pirated movies on the streets of New York. Turns out that illegal DVDs were virtually nowhere to be found. Unfortunately, one women came out with the illegal DVDs stuffed in her jacket.
Hyman was happy to see the woman come out, because it gave her a reason to bust her for piracy. "Since December 2003, when Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg started an initiative to stem the trade in bootlegged and counterfeit goods, Ms. Hyman has “seen a huge decrease in illegal DVDs being sold in buildings.” In a February sweep, the organization checked out three buildings and 32 storefronts for bootlegged DVDs, and found none."
May people who pirate these movies go to the theaters and record them on their phones or some fancy small video camera. It is becoming difficult to catch these people, but the Entertainment Merchants Association industry employs monitors who use night-vision equipment to see pirates in action, and theater owners pay employees up to $500 for catching a surreptitious recorder in the act.
Piracy will never go away; however the movie industry is advertising on how wrong and illegal it is. If you get caught purchasing pirated material over the internet, you could face some serious charges as well as the seller.
My question to you is, should it be fare for people to sell movies through the internet other than the entertainment industry? i believe that people should not pirate movies or music in order to get a quick buck. Music and movies should be sold by the entertainment industry only or some other store such as Blockbuster, who get their movies legally.
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Yes, the moral thing would be to not by pirated movies and CD's. However, I think that it is an issue that will never be solved because of the internet making it so easy to do.
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