Covert groups behind bulk of bootlegs

Convert groups behind bulk of bootlegs

"Instead, computer users dish out praise or criticism on the caliber of video
and sound achieved by online groups whose sole mission is to make available
unauthorized copies of Hollywood films within a day or two of a movie's debut,
if not before."

For these online bootleggers, who authorities say represent the top of a distribution pyramid for pirated movies, software and music, it's all about the bragging rights for being first to copy a hot title or releasing the best-quality movie. These online bootleggers get there movies on a private site and they score even more points if they do it before the release date. The group name of these members that are getting these bootleg movies are known as the warez groups and they sell there movies on the internet and people but it from them. The two most popular movies that are being copied right and are still in theaters and they are Ocean 12 and Blade Trinity. In 2002 U.S. department officals convicted alot of bootleggers and the people that bought the movies from the warez got arrested to.