2. INTRODUCTION Piracy traditionally refers to acts intentionally committed for financial gain, though more recently, copyright holders have described online copyright infringement, as "piracy.” Copyright piracy is unauthorized reproduction for sale or use of a copyrighted work such as a book, lyric, or software
3. MOVIE PIRACY Movie Piracy is the illegal copying of movies for personal or commercial use. This is affecting the film industry financially on a global level In 2000, over 20 million pirate optical discs were seized, and by comparison, 4.5 million videos were seized worldwide in the same period.
4. Some methods of movie piracy are: Camcording: Pirates record a movie as it appears on a theaterscreenby smuggling a hand-held video camera into a theater. The quality is poor. Telecine: A sophisticated method where the pirate has access to a film reel at a theater. The pirate can record a very high quality copy of the movie
5. GAME PIRACY Games are a form of intellectual property, like books and film, that, once they have been created, can be copied. Copying a game is a lot cheaper than buying it because the copier is making no contribution to the cost of making the game in the first place. There are two forms.There is piracy by the individual game player, these days usually over the internet but in the past often by copying using physical media . And there is commercial counterfeiting where a professional criminal mass manufactures the game
