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Archived updates for Tuesday, August 17, 2004

60 Minutes: "Pirates Of The Internet"

According to 60 Minutes, Peter Chernin, head of 20th Century Fox, organized a meeting between studio moguls and some high school and college kids. The moguls them five movie titles, four of which had not been released yet. A half-an-hour later, the kids had found bootleg copies of all five movies on the Internet. Fox and the other studios have just launched their own site, Movielink, where consumers can download a film for between three and five dollars.
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