NEWEST WB HERO REAL PIRATE FIGHTER.Byline: Greg Hernandez Staff Writer BURBANK - Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . Entertainment on Thursday announced the formation of the movie industry's first worldwide corporate anti-piracy operation. The unit, which will have full-time analysts in London, Germany, Asia and Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. , will be led by Darcy Antonellis, named to Warner's newly created position of senior vice president for worldwide anti-piracy operations. ``Piracy is a global threat to our industry, and it needs a dedicated, multidisciplinary, worldwide team to deal with it,'' said Antonellis, who will be based in Burbank. ``This core group has been assembled to fight intellectual-property theft not only in different countries, but in different arenas as well - in courtrooms, in classrooms and in the community.'' The anti-piracy group will work with and across all areas of Warner Bros. Entertainment, including worldwide feature-film, home-video and television production and distribution operations. It will also work with parent company Time Warner's public policy offices around the world. International piracy has been one of the hottest topics in the industry over the past year - as at the annual ShoWest convention in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. in late March. Bill Shannon Bill Shannon (b. 1970, Nashville, Tennessee) is an American artist who resides in Brooklyn.[1] Shannon holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. , director of anti-piracy operations at the Motion Picture Association of America, gave ShoWest attendees an example of how pervasive pirating has become worldwide. He detailed how someone at an early screening of ``Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World'' used a camcorder to make an illegal pirated copy of the film inside a movie theater in New York There are many famous theaters in New York, most notably the Broadway theatres in New York City.
Four days later, the movie showed up on the Internet, and, by Nov. 28, a DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. originating from that copy was bought by a street vendor in China. Greg Hernandez, (818) 713-3758 greg.hernandez(at)dailynews.com |
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