The internet has led to the ascent of a bewildering copyright paradox. This refers to the ongoing situation of digital piracy that has led to the decline of the copyright world. With the ease of the internet, fans can exchange files over the Internet, plummeting the sales of cinemas. What adds fuel to the fire is the fact that Copyright law is feeble to end the surge of Internet piracy, which will before long eliminate any monetary incentive for creative work.
The Founder and CEO of Shield Consultancy, Moataz O Saleh, reveals that the proprietors of forums and sites that view the pirated content offer as much as 90 thousand pounds for these stolen materials. “However, this is a hidden as the trade that nobody knows the slightest bit about, and behind it many lying in wait, from inside and outside of Egypt, to hurt the Egyptian economy and filmmakers,” he says.
Moataz O Saleh is an Egyptian entrepreneur and a leading IT professional, honored by the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi during the opening of the first phase of the New Administrative Capital of Egypt. Being the Founder of Shield Consultancy, Egypt’s leading business consultancy targeted at making businesses piracy proof, Saleh has proffered several prestigious projects an edge, including New Opera House Cinema 2019 Project, Digital Anti-Piracy (InParadox) Movie by SHIELD Consultancy, Digital Anti-Piracy (InParadox) Movie by SHIELD Consultancy and many more. Saleh additionally indulges in doing studies to reveal the emerging menaces in the world of technology.
Saleh clarifies how this trade hurts an economy that creates millions yearly for a large number of workers in the business. “Electronic piracy is a crime of a financial nature that appears as illicit behavior related in any capacity to electronic gadgets, which brings about advantages streaming to the criminals while the victim bears the misfortunes. The objective of these violations is consistently the robbery and theft of the data contained in these gadgets, or are frequently carried with the point of extorting individuals utilizing the personally identifiable information (PII) stored in their devices,” he says.
Globally and even in Egypt, the piracy of electronic content is punishable by law. In any case, the trade of pilfered movies and robbery of visual art production from cinemas is now the trend, where anybody can covertly record another film when it’s released to theaters utilizing an expert HD camera to sell for a considerable number of pounds.
Concerning ways by which movies are pilfered, Saleh elucidates that the conventional route is for an individual to go into a theatre, sit and tape the whole film with a high-resolution camera. “While the powerful technique used in modern attacks is that the pirate gains access to the film files inside the cinema and convert them into viewing copies. This empowers them to upload their content on the Internet. Another route is to copy the film documents onto CDs using a few programs that convert various formats of unencrypted files,” he says.
Therefore, Saleh remains at the forefront of cutting-edge technology to know about the tactics used by the pirates desiring to hijack the nation’s economy.
He emphasizes that producers should initially monitor cinema and not permit anybody to utilize their phones while films are showing. “It is also advisable that producers encode all movies before they are delivered to theaters inside and outside Egypt. Furthermore, they must learn the post-production process to encourage monitoring and spotting of unauthorized leaked duplicates. Likewise, producers and makers need to protect their own office by utilizing cybersecurity technologies, and furthermore acquiring quality security certificates,” he says.
