TOMB RAIDER MOST
PIRATED MOVIE
Copyright 2001 www.tombraiderchronicles.com MediaForce
Press Release
[ July 10th 2001 ]
MediaForce,
a digital copyright enforcement firm specializing
in Internet anti-piracy solutions, today announced
the top ten pirated movies on the Internet for
the month of June.
MediaForce's
copyright enforcement service uses highly advanced
anti-piracy technology to detect and deter theft
of digital music, software, images, and movies
on the Internet. Unlike conventional anti-piracy
solutions, MediaForce's service scans the Internet
24 hours a day, 7 days a week identifying websites,
news groups, and peer-to-peer groups like Aimster
or Gnutella that host pirated materials. MediaForce's
patent-pending technology identifies pirated material
regardless of a file's watermarking, compression
methods or sampling rates.
Three
of the titles on the Top Ten list - "Tomb Raider,"
"Shrek," and "Pearl Harbor" - are current box-office
hits, with a combined cumulative gross of $542
million in box office receipts. The MediaForce
"Top Ten" for the month of June is as follows,
ordered by frequency of piracy:
Snatch
(Screen Gems)
Pearl
Harbor (Buena Vista)
Traffic
(USA Films)
Lara
Croft: Tomb Raider (Paramount Pictures)
Shrek
(Dreamworks SKG)
The Matrix
(Warner Brothers)
Gone
in 60 Seconds (Touchstone Pictures)
Hannibal
(Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
Gladiator
(Dreamworks SKG)
X-Men
(20th Century Fox)
"The
availability of first-run films on the Internet
- including movies released to theaters as recently
as three weeks ago - shows that the threat to
the motion picture industry of digital piracy
is very real," noted Aaron Fessler, Chief Executive
Officer of MediaForce. The MPAA says video piracy
costs the studios over $2.5 billion a year.
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