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India loses close to an estimated $4 billion a year to piracy, according to a new study released.
From the Hollywood Reporter:
The Indian entertainment business loses $4 billion per year to piracy a new study released Thursday on the final day of the FICCI Frames conference.
India’s television industry loses $2.68 billion, while film lost $959 million. [...]

In a contribution to the opinion page at the International Herald Tribune, Jeremy Breningstall, an English teacher in China, writes about the depth and breadth of the pirated movies available to see.
From the piece “Movies for the masses”:
Contrast that with what you can find within a 10-minute walk of my house, which is in an [...]

The Times of London is reporting on proposed legislation set to be introduced next week to banned illegal downloaders from the Internet.
People who illegally download films and music will be cut off from the internet under new legislative proposals to be unveiled next week.
Internet service providers (ISPs) will be legally required to take action [...]

Verizon’s executive vice president for public affairs Tom Tauke tells the New York Times Blog Bits why Verizon does not want to police its network for pirated movies.
From the blog posting:
Mr. Tauke offered at least three objections to the concept:
1) The slippery slope.
Once you start going down the path of looking at the information going [...]

The Los Angeles Times yesterday brought attention to the posting of Andy Baio, over at Waxy.org, who released six years of raw piracy data concerning screening films given by the Academy Awards to its judges.
Today, Andy offers his analysis on the data and offers up this statement:
Screeners aren’t leaking as often, not because the MPAA’s [...]

Tim Wu of Slate Magazine writes about the lack of Sundance film festival movies on popular bit-torrent sites.
Film piracy, the conventional wisdom goes, is a threat to the film industry at all levels. That’s certainly the sense at the Sundance Film Festival, where both the festival and distributors invest heavily in anti-piracy measures, including undercover [...]

The MPAA has admitted to making a mistake on the levels of piracy committed by college students.  In their 2005 landmark study on movie piracy (PDF),  the MPAA stated that piracy committed by college students accounted for 44 percent of all piracy.
Now, due to human error, that figure was found to be wrong.

Hollywood laid much [...]

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced yesterday that they had dismantled a group in Montreal that illegally distributed copies of television shows.
From the AFP:
n a statement, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said the Montreal group reproduced popular television shows such as “The Six Million-Dollar Man” and “Ally McBeal” using 200 DVD burners capable of [...]

China is currently preventing US films from being shown in its country in retaliation to a intellectual property case filed at the WTO.
From the New York Times:
The Chinese government has not announced any ban, but American movies are no longer being approved for release early next year, according to the officials, who spoke on the [...]

France has just announced a new policy of cutting of Internet access for users who do not stop downloading pirated movies and music off of the Internet.
From the BBC:

French web users caught pirating movies or music could soon be thrown offline.
Those illegally sharing files will face the loss of their net access thanks [...]