2021 Spring Festival movie pirated resources are rampant, 8.88 yuan can buy six movies

The 2021 Spring Festival set many records in terms of cumulative box office and single-day box office. The national box office during the 7-day holiday reached 7.822 billion yuan. According to China National Radio, a large number of pirated resources were leaked after the Spring Festival movies were released. You can buy the movie resources of "Hello, Li Huanying" for 5 yuan on e-commerce platforms.

These pirated resources are usually spread in WeChat Moments, Tieba and public accounts, and are highly concealed. Most of these resources are obtained by secretly filming in movie theaters, and the picture and sound quality are poor. Searching for relevant articles on the WeChat App, you can see a large number of pirated resources of Spring Festival movies. Some of them can be played online, and others can be shared using Baidu Netdisk.

The reporter of China National Radio learned that some of the resources sold online are not stolen gun versions, but 1080p high-definition versions with stable pictures and clear sound quality. On social media and second-hand e-commerce trading platforms, you can search for the names of Spring Festival movies to find groups with related resources. After joining the group, you can get free movie playback links. If you spend 8.88 yuan to buy it, you can get a movie viewing applet, which includes a large number of movie resources, as well as TV series, variety shows, animation and other content.

The "gun version" of a movie means the resource obtained by pirating in a movie theater using a camera. The "TC" version is the abbreviation of TeleCine, which is transcribed or compressed from digital resources and has a higher image quality. The film distributor will embed some invisible anti-counterfeiting measures in the picture to help track the source of the pirated movie.

A reporter from China National Radio interviewed a Beijing law firm, where the lawyer said that some people's acts of secretly filming and distributing pirated movies not only constitute civil infringements, but may also violate the criminal law and they will be held criminally liable.