Film piracy involves illegally copying and distributing movies through various means. It is a popular way for people to access movies cheaper or for free, but it costs the film industry an estimated £500 million per year in lost revenue. While piracy provides free access to movies, it has significant negative consequences for the film industry through reduced profits. This can damage filmmakers' ability to fund future projects and put jobs in the film industry at risk long-term. Some evidence also suggests links between film piracy and organized crime or terrorist groups that use it to generate illegal profits.

2. What is film piracy?
Film piracy is the illegal copying and distribution of movies in print,
video, dvd and/or electronic files. It is commonly used all over the
world so that people can watch films for cheaper or even free. It's a very
popular choice of watching films as it is quite fast and simple. You can
watch films that are not yet released or if you are not willing/can't
afford to buy the film legally or go to the cinema to see it. Other than
the legal risks of film piracy, another fault in pirated movies is that they
are low quality films that are not worth the small expense or the wait
that the legal copy would be.

3. Almost 30% of the population is watching/downloading illegal copies
of films online, costing the film industry £500m a year. Streaming
content online or buying fake DVDs is classed as theft and despite the
public not thinking much of it, it creates serious consequences for the
industry and everyone involved in it. The perception that it is a
victimless crime is wrong. The super successes created every year
have their value reduced when the film is copied or made available
online. This can be very heart-breaking for the film maker who could
have been saving up and raising money so that they can make the
film.

4. A Past Piracy Problem
In June 1996, the largest ever film piracy affair in the New York, US
was demolished. The nationwide business sold over 1,00,000 films a
week, earning roughly Rs.33,034,460. The investigation, nicknamed
"Operation Copy Cat", ended when search warrants were completed.
36 people were arrested and there were 817 VCR’s, 77,641 pirnted
videos, Rs. 2,642,757 in case 37,000 blank cassettes, more than
1,00,000 sleeves, labels and other sophisticated equipment used in the
duplicating process."

5. Film Piracy, Organised Crime and
Terrorism
There is evidence of an advancing connection between film piracy and
organized crime. Piracy is high in profit and low in risk, often taking
place unnoticed by law.

6. Overall, the case provides clear evidence that terrorist groups use film
piracy to finance their activities. Caution should be applied when
making conclusions from limited information. This research also
suggest that property theft is appealing to not only organized crime
but also terrorists, such as opportunistic members of local terrorist
associations.

7. Effects on the Industry
Film piracy has been the bane of the film industry for about 5 - 10
years now, slowly but surely it is starting to slowly deteriorate the way
they sale and make their films. This effects is surely bad, it means a rise
in prices, a fall in quality and an abundance of crimes committed by
thousands of people!

8. Can You Guess the Lose Due to Piracy ??

9. Can You Guess the Lose Due to Piracy ??
40crores 20crores

10. Can You Guess the Lose For
Tollywood Industry
Due to Piracy for this year ??

11. Can You Guess the Lose For
Tollywood Industry
Due to Piracy for this year ??
Its was estimated that it was approximately 120
cores (till date)

12. Few Examples form Tollywood Industries

13. Short Term
The are a great many short term effects that film piracy has on the film
industry. For example, people now simply do not want to buy films
when given the option for a free one, this is a disaster for the industry
as it mean they're forced to charge more for there products. This means
that any revenue that would have been made from buying or renting the
film is now lower, meaning that the industry loses out on any potential
earnings, and a lower budget for future projects. “Star wars” for
example, this was the top pirated movie in America, it lost millions of
dollars in potential earnings.
For many new films, film piracy is also a problem. How easy it is to
watch a movies online. With literally just a few clicks you can find
yourself watching all the latest or all the old classics you grew up with,
and this is why people are using this in a major scale.

14. Long Term
As well as many short-term effects, they're also many long term
effects that piracy has on the film industry. For example, and possibly
the number one biggest fear for anyone with an aspiring career in the
film industry, job loss. Actors, stunt doubles, technicians and many
more of the variety of different types of jobs that are available in the
making of films are now at risk. This is much to do with the fact that
the profit that would have been made if people bought the film, is now
lost, meaning projects makes less money and are now having to make
huge cuts in things such as: pay, number of people employed and I am
sure many other areas. This creates many problems. For example, the
quality of the films being made will start to fall, especially with the
higher demand for films that are high quality and worth buying.

15. Advantages
However, although there are many negatives to film piracy when it comes
to to the music industry, there a few benefits for every day people. For
example, its free, and everything becomes better once it is is free. people
who may not be able to afford to pay £10 each time a new film comes out
can now access films easier and without having to pay. This means that
films maybe getting more recognition. Also, it allows people to now test if
they like a film or if its worth buying before actually pay to see it. So this
is actually an advantage as no one wants to spend money on a film then it
turning out to be bad.
For example, someone who has migrated from other place may find it very
hard to find movies related to their language, so pirating allows them easy
access to everything they have missed.

16. Conclusion
It seems that although piracy is highly popular, not a lot is happening to
stop it. This could be down to the evidence that shows that piracy does
not actually affect the film industry or could simply be that the sheer
amount of illegal piracy being carried out.
Consumers of pirated films, all-in-all, appear to gain major advantages
over the problems in using illegally streaming websites or buying a
pirated DVD. This suggests that film piracy will forever be around and
is unlikely to get any less popular any time soon.

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