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Movie studios fear download frenzy on faster Internet.
Publication: The Record (Hackensack, New Jersey) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) Publication Date: 20-NOV-04 |
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COPYRIGHT 2004 The Record
Byline: Brian Kladko
Nov. 20--Hollywood may depend on technology to produce its sci-fi, animated and fantasy blockbusters, but it's racing against another technology that threatens to drain profits from those movies: high-speed Internet connections.
Download speeds are getting faster each year -- good news for consumers, but bad news for movie studios. The faster a connection, the more tempting it is for people to download a movie for free.
Hoping to nip that temptation before it flowers into a full-blown fad, the studios filed suit this week against about 200 people across the country who were swapping copyrighted films such as "Troy," "Spider-Man 2" and "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen."
The tactic was taken straight from the recording industry's playbook, which began suing song-swappers more than a year ago. But...
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