NZ Film Piracy

As a New Zealander I am very proud to say that we make some damn good films! In a large part thanks to Peter Jackson directing the Lord Of The Rings trilogy, but we have had many success's without his help.
With the downloading of movies for free from file sharing sites or just copying a DVD from a movie Store, we are slowly killing our lucrative little industry.

According to NZFACT (New Zealand Federation Against Copyright Theft) the NZ film industry lost 25 % of its potential market which equates to 70.8 million dollars. This was thanks to piracy.
Because we are a small country with very few production companies to film movies, we rely on the sale of movie tickets and DVDs to keep making movies. In recent times these sales have dwindled.

There are very few ways to police this and there have been many theorys but nothing has been implemented that can have a major effect. Education about the consequences of piracy is already being seen at the start of DVDs and TV ad campaigns will be started shortly....

I don't think this is enough...

I believe that Piracy - not just in New Zealand - has become to advanced. With the technology that is availble to the public these days it is almost imposible to stop or even slow the spread of Piracy.
I think the answer is not to work on killing piracy.. We need to make friends with it because it is here to stay. The only problem is.... somthing needs to be done so the artist and the consumer are both happy....