Hollywood faces new piracy threat

[Jazzy]

AMSTERDAM (Hollywood Reporter) – Movie fans downloading free pirated films are no longer Hollywood's worst nightmare, but that's only because of a newer menace: cheap, and equally illegal, subscription services.



Foreign, often mob-run, businesses aggregate illegally obtained movies into cyberlockers similar to Internet storage sites used by individual consumers to squirrel away pirated video. But the for-profit version of this phenomenon has spawned an array of sophisticated and seemingly reputable sites selling unlimited digital movie files for as little as $5 a month.



Full story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100622/media_nm/us_piracy

 

[Wolvendeer]

Awesome, so now we have criminals in America selling movies for an arm and a leg, criminals of unknown origin selling movies for pennies on the dollar, and all the more reason to find a reputable warez site and support it.