Online Streaming Movies Are the New Trend for Bootleg Movies

The rapid growth in pirated online streaming movies hasn't resulted in any Motion Picture Association of America sting operations, and as of today, the organization doesn't have any strategy for combating it.

In a recent interview, the MPAA's general counsel seemed to throw up his hands: "We've been fairly effective in at least controlling the peer-to-peer piracy. But this is a new phenomenon."

The biggest problem with stopping streaming video piracy is that end users have no fear of getting in trouble. The MPAA's own definition of Internet piracy "obtaining movies by either downloading them from the Internet without paying or acquiring hard copies of illegally downloaded movies" doesn't even cover streaming video.

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