Research on Institutions & Piracy

Below you will find notes on the Institutions Warp Films, Universal Pictures and Working Titles in a

Warp Film

• British Film Company
• Warpfilms was setup in 1999
• Partner with WarpRecords
• Known for releasing low budget but high earners such as This is England.
• This is England is Warps most successful film to date.
• Famous directors such as Shane Meadows.

Universal Pictures

• An American Film Studio - Does both production and distribution
  
• Universal Pictures / Studios was officially setup in 1925 however has it roots back to 1909 with the Yankee Film Company.
  
• Since 2007 Universal Pictures has distributed all of Working Titles productions.
• They own 67% of Working Title.
• Universal Pictures are a mainstream American Company and is the 2nd longest living company
  
• The found was Carl Laemmie

Working titles

• Produced British films such as Bridget Jones' Diray, Love Actually and Hot Fuzz.
• Founded in 1984 by Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe.
• It's one of the largest British production companies and is based in London.
• It's primarily owned by Univeral Studies and BBC.
• Also has a baby brand called Working Title 2 which produces low budget films like Shawn of the Dead.
• Produces both Tv programs and Films

Piracy
Simple, due to the increase in technology piracy has become all the easier with it becoming almost a competition to see who can upload a film onto the internet the day it is released, or sometimes even leaking it before it's released. The film industry isn't alone in this problem, many other sectors in the economy is also being affected from books to video games.

Technology behind piracy comes in 2 major forms, being either peer-to-peer downloading via torrents and the like via search engine sites such as "The Pirate Bay" or other faster sites such as rapidshare.com who provide a hosting service.

Interestingly enough uploading copyright material is against the Terms & Conditions on Rapidshare, however they do not take it upon themselves to weed it out but the owners which is pointless since it is free to use.

Overall there is no way to stop piracy, it will only get worse until the media industry and others either design better security or embrace it.