The British film industry is to join forces with the government in a new task force to fight UK film pirates, it has been announced.
The sale of bootleg videos and DVDs is a growing problem, up 80% in the last year, according to the Federation Against Copyright Theft.
That means piracy has cost the UK film industry £400m in the last 12 months, the research said.
It was a “direct attack” on the jobs of 50,000 people in the industry, said UK Film Council director Nigel Green, who will chair the Anti-Piracy Taskforce.
Illegal copies of blockbusters like Tomb Raider 2, Terminator 3 and Pirates of the Caribbean have appeared on sale before their cinema releases.
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