`Pirates' Opening Booty: $404M
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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" ruled the seven seas with a record $139.8 million domestically over the long Memorial Day weekend, lifting its worldwide total to $404 million
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Move over Darth Vader. Captain Jack Sparrow is king for a day. Preliminary estimates released by Disney show that &quot;Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man&#039;s Chest&quot; earned &#36;55.5 million on Friday, which would set the record for the largest one-day take at the box office. The previous record was set last year by &quot;Star Wars: Episode III &amp;#151; Revenge of the Sith,&quot; which grossed about &#36;50 million.
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The MPAA estimated that global film piracy costs the US movie industry more than $3 billion annually, but it did not give an estimate for how much online piracy costs the industry.
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If you want to stop piracy of your programming, why would you take it off legitimate services? The peacock is in for a rude awakening.
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&quot;Pirates of the Caribbean: At  World&#39;s End,&quot; the third film in Walt Disney Co.&#39;s lucrative  adventure franchise, sold an estimated $57 million of tickets  in its first two days of release across North America, the  company said on Saturday.
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It's a Swedish smackdown: To protest Perspektiv Broadband's AllOfMP3 morality play, the Pirate Bay bans the ISP's users. In Monkey Bites.
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Johnny Depp&#039;s boozy, woozy buccaneer Jack Sparrow has plundered the box office, with &quot;Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man&#039;s Chest&quot; taking in a record &#36;132 million in its first three days, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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COMPUTER security researchers at SophosLabs in Sydney are warning Internet users about a widely-spammed e-mail teaser promising a trailer of the film Pirates of the Caribbean 3 - and the chance of free tickets if you are in North America or Europe.
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LOS ANGELES  - While Buena Vista's pirates predictably rode atop the boxoffice's high seas during the second weekend of "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End," there was also room for Universal Pictures' R-rated comedy "Knocked Up" to establish itself as an upstart hit.
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Paid music and movie download service launches today.
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Let's see if digital pirates are willing to watch ads to get music.
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&quot;Pirates of the  Caribbean: At World&#39;s End&quot; weathered intensified international  competition, but maintained its lead for a third consecutive  weekend with an estimated $51.3 million from 103 territories.
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TORONTO  - "Pirates of the Caribbean:   Dead Man's Chest," Hollywood's newest billion-dollar baby,   ended its nine-week run atop the foreign box office Sunday,   replaced by another Disney smash, "Cars."
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Porn flick cock-up A 20-something Chinese woman made a creditable pitch for the world's thickest DVD pirate title when she attempted to flog her wares to West Yorkshire Trading Standards, the Evening Standard reports.â¦
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Shares of Blockbuster Inc. plunged nearly 17 percent on Tuesday after a new threat emerged to the world's largest chain of movie-rental stores: Apple Inc. announced it now offers movie downloads via iTunes.
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Blackbeard, red faces There's a meeting of the film and music industry's anti-piracy captains in London today.â¦
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Just how juicy is Joost? Industry comment It was a beautiful day when the head of Disney finally came out and admitted piracy (or the "Dark Net" as they call it) is a business model. A bit like a drug addict coming out of rehab, it's hard to admit what you don't want to admit. But we still carry on and on with the same old story like a broken record.â¦