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Unit 1 Pirates of the In ternet It no secret that online piracy has decimated the music industry as millio ns of people stopped buying CDs and started steali ng their favorite songs by dow nl oadi ng them from the intern et. Now the hig n-tech thieves are coming after Hollywood. Illegal downloading of full-length feature films is a relatively new phenomenon, but it s becoming easier and easier to do. The people running America nsovie studios know that if they don do something~---and fast---they could be in the same boat as the  industry with all this privacy?” Chernin: “Well,I think, you know, one of the biggest studios in Hollywood. He knows the pirates of the In ternet are gai ning on him. Corresp ont: “ Doyou know how many movies are being dow nl oaded today, in one day, i n the Un ited States?” Chernin: a Ithink it probably in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions. ” Correspondent: “Andit s ongoing to grow. Chernin: “ It s only going to grow. ^Somebody can put a perfect digital copy up on the internet. A perfect digital copy, all right. And with the click of mouse, send out a millio n copies all over the world, in anin sta nt. ” 5 And it as free. If that takes hold, kiss Hollywood goodbye. Chernin recently organized a “ summit between studio moguls and some highschool and college kids---the people most likely to be downloading. Chernin: “And we said, ‘Let s come up with a challenge. Let s g five movies, and see if they can find them online. And we all sat aro and picked five movies, four of which hadn t been released yet. And then we came back half an hour later. They had found all five movies that we gave them. ” Correspondent: “ Eventhe ones that hadnteven been released yet? ”Chernin: “ Eventhe ones that hadn etven been released yet. ”Correspondent: “ Didthese kids have any sense that they were stealing? ” Chernin: “ You know it s…it 罗al Wheird tHieyotom know it stsealing, and I dontthink they think it wsrong. I think they have an attitude of,