


James Cameron has gone to extraordinary lengths to produce this 3D movie and seeing a blurred copy acquired from the Internet will just ruin the whole experience – people who are prepared to pay will want to see it properly. This weekend a press release began to circulate which quotes Eden Wright, a Fox representative, saying that due to the movie’s availability in 3D at the cinema, “piracy will play a much smaller role in stealing profits from due to the technological hurdles it imposes.” This time things seem a little different. Indeed, when a movie is leaked before it hits US theaters, as was the case with productions such as Star Wars Episode III, Wolverine and now Avatar, the FBI usually gets called in. Normally an Internet leak of a movie, particularly one the size of Avatar, leads to furious statements from the studios. There appears to be several releases of the movie online, although some appear to originate from the same TS ( Telesync) copy, although without downloading and watching them all, that is very hard to verify from the screenshots currently available. Just before the official US release, that became possible. It comes as no surprise, therefore, that some people want to try and download an illicit copy from the Internet. Set on a moon under siege by humans determined to exploit its resources, the new sci-fi extravaganza ‘Avatar’ from Titanic director James Cameron is the most hotly anticipated film of the year.
