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...Studio executives, no strangers to melodrama, have begun to talk about movie piracy the way FBI agents talk about terrorism: they watch the Web for "chatter," they embed films with hidden "fingerprints," and they speak without irony about "changing hearts and minds." They even use night-vision goggles. It's not going too far to say they are completely paranoid, which doesn't mean they are wrong...
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...
...across every page, each corresponding to the owner's name. Before sending Samurai to dubbing houses, Warner Bros. rendered the copies less piratable by going through every scene and editing out characters not relevant to the particular dubbing job--an exercise that took about three days per cassette. The studio did send out "screener" copies to Oscar voters--a high-risk move--but far fewer than normal...
...caught on. "We did one gig and there was something like 48 guys from record companies there," says Kapranos. "One guy was holding his mobile phone up in the middle of the set." The band eventually signed to the small, respected independent Domino Records, then hit the recording studio. Although the New York City, postpunk influences are obvious, the band tends to cite lesser-known Scottish bands of the late '70s, like the Fire Engines and Orange Juice. But their sound is their own, with a driving beat supplied by Thompson and bassist Bob Hardy. Kapranos' tense, observational lyrics - "Although...