Hollywood faces new piracy threat

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Hollywood faces new piracy threat

Reuters
By Carl DiOrio Carl Diorio – Tue Jun 22, 2:50 am ET

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...

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

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Since Hollywood only knows one way of dealing with it, it'll be interesting when they try to take the mob to court...