Take black widow for example, it was streaming on Disney plus so a lot of people could pirated it. Then there is Evangelion 3.0+ 1.0 it’s on cinemas in Japan right now but nobody can pirate the movie. Why is that?
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You can still pirate movies in the theater, but it’s both harder and sometimes lower quality.
The easiest way to pirate a movie from the theater is to set up a camera and record it from inside the theater. I think these are called “screeners”. It can be done by the person who operates the projector, but also by someone who buys a ticket. Screeners have a lot of downsides:
* They’re lower resolution than a legitimate copy because they’re a recording of a recording, and often include things outside the screen.
* The audio is worse because most cameras don’t have high-quality microphones and aren’t capable of recording effects like surround sound.
* Theaters usually remove people caught making screeners.
* Theaters care about this because if it’s known they’re friendly to pirates, the companies that distribute films might stop distributing to them.
Another way is to get a “direct feed”. This has to be done by the projectionist or someone else with access to the projector. This involves connecting something to the projector that makes a copy of the movie while it plays or somehow gets a copy of the movie off the digital “film”. These are obviously much higher quality, but the people who make them risk losing their jobs and being charged with a crime.
There are probably other ways, but those are the two most obvious ones, and both have pretty good reasons why nobody’s done that yet for the Evangelion film.
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