Studios insert piracy notes in DVD packages

January 09, 2007 The Digital Entertainment Group, an industry-funded nonprofit consortium that advocates and promotes DVD. The pamphlet urges consumers to buy authentic discs rather than pirated copies and will appear in titles from DEG studio members Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Lionsgate, New Line Home Entertainment, Paramount Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Universal Studios Home Entertainment and Warner Home Video. "The DEG is pleased to lead this first step of unified industry support against theft of creative content," said Bob Chapek, president of DEG and of Buena Vista Worldwide Home Entertainment.

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