Web surfers watch Snatch

NEWS London gangster movie Snatch, starring Brad Pitt and directed by Madonna's fella Guy Ritchie, was the number one film to be traded by high-tech pirates over the web last month. Universally slated war epic Pearl Harbor came second in the piracy stakes, beating Oscar winning Traffic and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider into third and fourth place respectively. Research was carried out by US copyright enforcement agency MediaForce. A report by the Motion Picture Association of America believes their member studios lose around £1.78bn every year to piracy, a figure expected to soar with the growth of P2P software. The top ten list for most frequently pirated films during June: Snatch (Screen Gems)
Pearl Harbor (Buena Vista)
Traffic (USA Films)
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (Paramount Pictures)
Shrek (Dreamworks SKG)
The Matrix (Warner Brothers)
Gone in 60 Seconds (Touchstone Pictures)
Hannibal (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
Gladiator (Dreamworks SKG)
X-Men (20th Century Fox)