However, Hollywood reports that it even seems to lose even more money because of internet piracy in America and Europe. Yet does online piracy really endanger Hollywood? A decent case can be made that buccaneers fill a gap overseas where legitimate markets are heavily restricted by repressive regimes -- such as in the Islamic Republic of Iran where every movie must be approved by the non secular morals police. The People's Republic of China sets quotas of the number of movies allowed into the country -- and often blocks any film that is critical of China's dictatorial leaders. So a case could be made that Iranian and Chinese buccaneers are actually busting their government's blockade on “dangerous” ideas such as freedom of speech or the right to elect one's own leaders.
Some of the world's biggest DVD-counterfeiters are in China, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. One DVD mill near Manila was cranking out 14 million Dvds annually. Indeed, bootlegged Dvds traceable to China have been identified in at least 25 countries. So it will be with down-loadable movies. Already a Sweden-based site functions much like Google, listing movies that are illegally available for free download. In a recent visit to that site, investigators found more than 5 million users online, trading illegally copied films. Some of the globe's biggest DVD counterfeiters are in China -- whoever bootlegged disks have been identified in more than 25 nations worldwide.
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