Revenge of the Sith has been out for less than a week and already I know someone who has it on DVD, however it's been publicly hammered by the media as being available via BitTorrent in the last few days with all the attendant arguments for and against p2p file sharing: Capitalism, Lucas' seemingly voluminous wealth and greed, Theft vs. Infringement etc. Interestingly these are the first notices people are receiving due to their perception (or self-perception) of being small-time infringers.
What's interesting about the below paragraph is the initial reading of it gives me the impression that 'Twentieth Century Fox (collectively, 'FOX')' are in fact the sole copyright owners of ALL of the world's cinema. Gauging what their parent company News Corporation has acquired recently, for a second I thought it actually might be. And then it occurred to me that it's the 21st Century and they're probably going to have to play technological catch-up really soon. Or at least start preventing their employees from leaving work with time-coded preview versions.
FOX issuing takedown notices to Sith downloader
"Re:Unauthorized Use of Twentieth Century FOX Film Corporation Property
Notice ID:xxxNotice IDxxx
Notice Date:21 May 2005 xx:xx:xx GMTDear Sir or Madam:
TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM CORPORATION and its affiliated companies
;(collectively, 'FOX') are the exclusive owners of copyrights in motion
pictures."
(Via BoingBoing)