Eli5: How a movie can be pirated when it’s streaming but not when it’s on cinemas?

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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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I’m not 100% sure what is the most popular method to get the file but when you have a stream, you can use your computer to capture the video and sound that’s being played. On the backend you’re virtually just playing a video file. So it can ultimately be copied. In a cinema you don’t have access to the actual file, the theater has access to it through something like a cartridge. So a pirater can at most only record the screen with a camera where when you stre you’re computer can control the stream.

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