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NO SPIDER-MAN 3 BOOTLEGS, SAYS SONY Wednesday, April 25 2007 
Sony
Pictures
on
Tuesday
denied
a
Reuters
report
that
bootleg
DVD
copies
of
Spider-Man
3
were
already
showing
up
in
China
for
$1.00
per
copy.
In
a
statement,
Sony
said,
"Our
investigation
in
China
has
revealed
no
case
of
the
film
being
pirated
to
date.
Similar
hoaxes
and
false
alarms
have
occurred
prior
to
the
release
of
other
major
films.
We
have
uncovered
examples
of
Spider-Man
2
being
sold
in
Spider-Man
3
boxes
in
China.
(more)SPIDEY ALREADY AVAILABLE IN CHINA Tuesday, April 24 2007 Spider-Man 3 may not be scheduled to debut in U.S. theaters until May 3 (midnight showings), but pirated copies of the movie are already being bootlegged in China, Reuters reported today (Tuesday). The wire service observed that DVD copies of the movie are selling for about one dollar and sport cover art that appears to have been copied from posters widely available online. And, in the Chinese equivalent of chutzpah, there is even a warning on (more) |
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A high-quality copy of Universal's American Gangster began circulating on the Internet this week and bootleg DVDs of the movie were being sold for $5 apiece in Los Angeles, the Wall Street Journal reported today (Friday). The availability of the movie and others earlier this year, the newspaper commented, "shows that Hollywood's supposedly reinforced preventive measures on piracy aren't as reliable as the industry thought." It also noted that for Universal the problem is compounded by the fact that the bootleg version of American Gangster appears to be in pristine condition and lacks even the "not-for-distribution" scroll that identifies screeners. John Desmond, an executive with online piracy-research company MediaSentry, told the WSJ that if a bootleg copy is going to be offered online, it's best for the studios if it's of poor quality (like movies camcorded in theaters) since most consumers would rather buy a theater ticket than watch a poor-quality bootleg copy. However, the newspaper noted, pristine copies often can be made from prints that have been sent to postproduction houses.
