S&V article
But the MPAA still thinks that individual consumers are pirates.The {bootleggers} would have to do their business surrounded by a full house of Tom Cruise's remaining fans on opening night, a Thursday. (Paramount released {Mission:Impossible III} in time for midnight screenings the night before its official May 5, 2006 opening.) ... At 3 p.m. the next day, one of the movie pirates sat down to meet with a "wholesaler" in a Dunkin' Donuts on East 116th Street in New York City's Spanish Harlem. There he sold a bunch of "master copies" of Mission: Impossible III for distribution throughout New York and the rest of the country. Meanwhile, the illegal tape had been transferred to a hard drive and uploaded to an FTP (file transfer protocol) site, where it was downloaded by accomplices in Asian "distribution hubs" such as Singapore, Hong Kong, Pakistan, and Malaysia.
--Alan
