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...Brandon M. Terry ’05 is a joint government and African and African American studies concentrator in Lowell House. He is the president of the Black Men’s Forum...
...Marc Brandon works in a far corner of the Warner Bros. studio in Burbank, Calif., not far from where the old western back lot used to be. His office is plain and neat, and there was a time when his job was too--back when, as director of antipiracy Internet operations, his chief responsibility was reminding online T-shirt companies that the studio owns Bugs Bunny. Today, Brandon, 30, in jeans and an oversize T shirt, says the pirates dictate his daily schedule. In 2002 some 41 million illegal copies of movies were seized by law-enforcement authorities around...
...weekend of the sneak preview, Brandon got hourly updates from the studio's Internet-monitoring firm, hoping not to hear that Samurai had been scattered across the globe. The off-site security firm (which requested that it not be named) scanned file-trading networks 24 hours a day. It can fire off letters warning Internet service providers about misbehaving users, but its main weapon is the decoy file, which it dispatched by the tens of thousands. Downloaders spent hours pulling down the bait, only to find a mess of ones and zeros. Bored wannabe pirates added to the mass distraction...
...Monday after the film's sneak preview, no pirate copies had surfaced. "It was a pretty amazing feat," Brandon says now, as if describing a matter of national security. "The movie very easily could have been compromised...
...fact, it wasn't until Dec. 6 that Brandon finally got the dreaded call. Around 2 p.m., he learned that Samurai was online, just one day after its release in theaters. In this day and age, that is a victory--which reflects how badly the studios are losing the war. That first pirate of Samurai was from a camcorder copy made in a U.S. theater on the day the movie premiered. Warner Bros. has identified the theater using tracking codes hidden in the film but declined to reveal the information, citing ongoing legal investigations. After years of resisting the hard...