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Online Pirates Target New Bond Film

Although James Bond is known for is ability to fight off villains and shut-down global criminal activities, it took online pirates less than 48 hours to take Bond down, and release the new "Casino Royale" film online. An Internet intelligence firm said that the new film is available for download on the net in its full version, and that less than 48 hours have passed since its official release, and the time the pirate copy went online.

Online piracy only gets stronger and it takes less time for illegal distribution to hit the market. The new film is available both online, and on illegal DVD copies across Britain. The first copies were of poor quality and featured a camcorder version of the film taken in a cinema in Russia. The next copies offered better quality and improved audio. The movie was downloaded more than 200,000 times in less than 48 hours of its release. The movie hit box offices on November 14 in London, and a high quality version was already available on November 18. The data was gathered by Envisional, a company that specializes in piracy surveillance.

Envisional says that there are millions of digital pirates all over the world, and that when users download copyrighted content off the web they are actually committing piracy. Most of them do not feel bad about their actions, and some of them are not even aware that their actions are illegal. As more content becomes available, the number of people downloading increases, and the phenomenon only grows.