It's a matter of us doing our best to circumvent that piracy.'' To add more fuel to the already burning inferno, a new technology called DivX allows the swapping of bootleg movies almost as easily as music fans trade songs. Hollywood still has some time to act through. The files are still too big to transfer over a 56K modem but once broadband hits, the floodgates will open and may wash away Hollywood forever. It is still way too early to predict if bootleg films will be minor scrapes and cuts to Hollywood or huge gaping wound in which every second the life of Hollywood is dwindling away. Maybe, maybe not.
Movies are very different than music.
They have a visual side to them which makes it hard to get high quality feeds over the Internet. Yes, currently you can find decent quality bootlegs but they still have a long way to go to match DVD and movie theatre quality. Also, making exact duplicates of music is easy and usually just as good as the original. Making exact duplicates of movies is a lot harder and takes a lot longer to download. But with all things, over time it will get easier and faster.