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May 26, 2005: Headlines: Figures: COS - Bolivia: Movies: Hollywood: Washington Post: "Ray" director Taylor Hackford, testifying for the Directors Guild of America, told senators on the Judiciary Committee's intellectual property subcommittee that he is among those who have been victimized by piracy
"Ray" director Taylor Hackford, testifying for the Directors Guild of America, told senators on the Judiciary Committee's intellectual property subcommittee that he is among those who have been victimized by piracy
"Ray" director Taylor Hackford, testifying for the Directors Guild of America, told senators on the Judiciary Committee's intellectual property subcommittee that he is among those who have been victimized by piracy
Feds Shut Down Network That Leaked 'Star Wars'
By Brooks Boliek
Reuters
Thursday, May 26, 2005; 9:08 AM
WASHINGTON (Hollywood Reporter) - Federal law enforcement officers continued their crackdown on illegal copyright piracy as the U.S. departments of Justice and Homeland Security announced the first-ever criminal-enforcement action against BitTorrent network users Wednesday.
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"Ray" director Taylor Hackford, testifying for the Directors Guild of America, told senators on the Judiciary Committee's intellectual property subcommittee that he is among those who have been victimized by piracy.
"I was fortunate with the movie 'Ray,"' he testified. "We had critical acclaim, and it did well at the theatrical box office and, importantly, even better with home video sales. My co-producer and the movie's distributor will make money on the picture, but that was not certain when the decision to invest was made."
Hackford said pirates camcorded the movie on the first day it was released at the Loews Raceway 10 in Westbury, N.Y., and at the Loews Jersey Garden Theater in Elizabeth, N.J.
"It was immediately put on the Web to be downloaded at a mass-production optical-disc plant in Russia, or in China, so within days of the film's release, copies of these stolen 'camcord editions' were found not only on (New York's) Canal Street but all over New York, California, Florida, Georgia, Texas -- and worldwide. . . . Just last week on May 19 through peer-to-peer networks, more than 476,000 requests were made to download 'Ray.' There have been 42 million such requests since my film was first pirated in October 2004. The Internet piracy of 'Ray' has been identified in 68 countries since that time. And that's just what we have data on."
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
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