Podeloy Productions Blog

Last Sunday’s episode of “60 Minutes” tackled movie piracy, the practice of copying or recording a film and then selling it on the black market in violation of copyright law.  “60 Minutes” specifically talked about pirating movies that are still in theatrical release by videotaping the big screen and then distributing the low-quality video on BitTorrent.  The journalists interviewed people like Steven Soderbergh who said that piracy of this kind doesn’t effect the movie stars with eight-figure salaries, but it effects the little guys.  The argument is that if the studio is losing money, fewer movies will be made, and if fewer movies are made, that means fewer jobs for the little guys.  While this seems logical, I’m not sure if one thing necessarily leads to another as directly as this argument implies.  Nevertheless, piracy is a huge problem for Hollywood and even us “little guys” ought to take a stand against it on moral/legal grounds and certainly to steer clear of it ourselves.