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PIRATES WINNING TECHNOLOGICAL WAR, CNN CONCLUDES Thursday, November 2 2006 Internet pirates appear to be winning the "technological arms race" against the film and music industries, CNN has concluded. The cable news network reported on its website Wednesday that the pirates have discovered a method of erasing the watermarks that the film industry has added to DVDs and theatrical releases to help track down bootleggers. They have also reportedly discovered a way to prevent the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association (more) DOGS CAN SNIFF OUT PIRATED DVD'S -- BUT THERE'S A HITCH Wednesday, September 27 2006 
Efforts
by
the
Motion
Picture
Association
of
America
to
use
dogs
trained
to
smell
the
chemicals
used
to
produce
DVDs
to
nab
movie
bootleggers
at
airports
have
run
into
a
hitch,
the
Washington
Post
suggested
today
(Wednesday).
The
newspaper
said
that
two
Labradors,
Lucky
and
Flo,
who
were
trained
in
Ireland
by
a
man
who
also
trains
dogs
to
sniff
out
bombs,
made
an
appearance
in
Washington
Tuesday
to
demonstrate
their
talent
(after
already
discovering
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From Russia with love -- and perhaps a degree of malice as well -- came the first bootleg copies of Casino Royale, the latest James Bond flick. According to Envisional, an online company that monitors Internet piracy, a poor-quality copy of the film, apparently captured with a camcorder in a Russian theater, first popped up on Internet file-sharing sites on Friday, the day the movie opened. But sound and picture quality were said to be poor. However, on Saturday a higher-quality copy, uploaded in Italy, also became available. By the end of the weekend, the two copies were being spread around, and by Sunday they had been downloaded some 200,000 times, Envisional claimed. Meanwhile the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America announced Monday that they are launching a joint campaign called Holiday Blitz aimed at fighting movie and music piracy. The campaign will include heightened security at movie theaters to prevent camcording and a crackdown on bootleg production. The trade organizations said Monday that during last year's Holiday Blitz some 1.3 million illegal CDs and DVDs were confiscated.
