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Hong Kong s film, TV and music industries have jointlycalled on the government to address the growing problem of online piracy whichthey say is threatening the very survival of the territory s content supplyindustries.Thecall was made at a
stanley cup symposium held by the Film, Television and RecordingIndustries Copyright Concern Group on Sunday Jan 23 and attended by topindustry figures including producer Nansun Shi, Media Asia executive directorJohn Chong and TVB general manager Stephen Chan. Among topics discussed were the urgent need for newlegislation and public education campaigns. The content creators and owners are helpless without thecopyright law being strengthened to deal with infringement in the digitalenvironment, said Chan. Hong Kong is one of the most successful nations in Asia atfighting disc piracy - the piracy rate dropped from 60% in 1998 to 20% in 2003- but the territory has a high rate of broadband penetration and peer-to-peerfilesharing is exploding. The MPA s MediaSentry search engine - which onlylooks for titles produced by MPA member companies - detected 2,770 cases of P2Ppiracy in Hong Kong in 2004 compared to just 107 the previous year. Clearly the problem of free downloading of movies hasbecome extremely serious, said Chong. The MPA also detected that within a 10-second period lastDecember, 153 people were downloading Sony s Chinese-language Kung-fu Hustle.More than half of these were in China. Despite the indus
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With the slogan DIFF - it s different the formation of Ireland s new Dublin International Film Festival DIFF has been announced. The first edition is set to take place from March 6 to 13 2003 at the Screen and Savoy cinemas in Dublin. According to festival Director Michael Dwyer the DIFF will be a non-competitive event, focused on the already sizeable and growing audience for cinema in Dublin and modelled on Toronto, where I loved 25 of the 28 films I saw there in a week! It is widely believed that the older event is in some financial difficulties, which DFF board Chairman Lewis Clohessy refused to detail when interviewed by screendaily at the end of September. The Board have decided that less is more when it comes to comment about the Festival s current circumstances, he
stanley kubek said. This is part of the background against which Dwyer, whose day job is Film Correspondent of The Irish Times, is establishing the new festival with David McLoughlin, a one-time manager of the Dublin Film Festival, now a film producer whose first feature film, Dead Bodies, is in post-production. Dwyer is bullish about the prospects for the new venture. We are already in negotiation to secure a number of major new films for the festival, and the response from the film trade has been hugely encouraging. Dwyer and McLoughlin
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