The Report: Fox Takes On Script Pirates

It’s a phenomenon as old as the Internet: Aspiring screenwriters and film buffs swap scripts online, hoping to learn tricks of the trade or peek at movies before they hit theaters. The practice isn’t quite legal — scripts are just as protected by copyright law as finished films — but hundreds of sites such as the Script Shack and Drew’s Script-O-Rama have operated for years under a mostly accepted code: Avoid posting high-profile in-development scripts, and act promptly if studio lawyers send take-down letters.