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Article: Pirates won't be intimidated.(Brief Article)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- June 28, 2005
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HOLLYWOOD -- Hollywood got pretty much everything it wanted from the Supreme Court Monday, but techies and studio insiders agreed there's one thing the Grokster decision likely won't significantly affect: piracy.
Illegal downloads, especially of movies, have largely moved to distributed networks like Bit Torrent and open-source applications that aren't run by legal corporations that sell ads and thus can't be targeted by U.S. law.
"When you look where most piracy is happening today, there's no there there," observed Marc Morgenstern, VP of piracy tracking company Overpeer. "Piracy will go on unabated."
Studio execs uniformly declined to ...