Downloading screener movies could be more difficult from this year

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The piracy in the cinemas it is one of the biggest problems facing the industry. Despite the fact that there are various technologies that seek to prevent a camera from being able to capture the image projected in a cinema, it is currently possible to bypass all protections. And just a few hours after the premieres, movies on screener they finished published online to download on torrent websites and the like. However, some of the better quality ones may stop being published.

If you have ever had the urgent need to see a movie that was in the cinema and you couldn't go see it, you will have verified that many of the video tracks come from Russia. The copies CAM Of the country they usually have good quality, and what is done is simply to change the audio track for the one recorded in Spain and share the copy on networks.

Recording in Russian theaters is legal if you don't make money from it

However, these copies could disappear because Russia is preparing a new law that will ban any kind of video recording in theaters. Movies take just over three months to go from theaters to streaming platforms, but there are those who can not wait and jump into this type of copies to watch movies online.

According to the United States, the recording of movies in the cinema It is the primary source for unauthorized copies of newly released movies found on the Internet. From there Russia is singled out as the world's leading source of CAM copies, and the authorities had done nothing to prevent it because, oddly, it's not illegal do it in the country if you don't profit from it, as if it happens in the United States or even in Spain.

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For this reason, Russia is preparing a new law that seeks to solve the legal vacuum, where someone who can record can also be prosecuted regardless of whether or not they will get an economic return from it. Currently they already have a draft of the law, and from the United States they hope that the number of screeners in the network will be greatly reduced, since the majority come from there.

Russia is the world's largest source of screener movies

In 2015, the origin of dozens of cinema films that were circulating online was tracked, and 26 of them came from Russian theaters. The figure increased in 2016 to 63 films, while in 2017 78 were found. In 2018, however, the figure dropped to 48. In addition to the images, 34 audio recordings were also found to be from Russia.

The authorities of the United States affirm that they not only seek to defend the cinemas, but also the streaming platforms that often sign exclusivity contracts to release the films between the release in cinemas and the launch on Blu-ray. Russia is the main country of origin for screeners, but he's not the only one. In 2018, Mexico was estimated to be second, followed by India and China.