Insiders blamed for most online movie piracy: Most pirate copies of popular movies circulated online are the result of leaks by industry insiders rather than home or cinema copying, according to US research.
A team from AT&T Laboratories and the University of Pennsylvania created software to track movies in the US box office top 50 uploaded to file-sharing networks between January 2002 and June 2003.
Seventy-seven percent of films uploaded during this period were apparently created during production or distribution. Some simply appeared online before their cinema release - meaning they must have been leaked.
