Hollywood studies have begun an anti-camcording website against pirates who record a film at a theater and then produce DVD copies for sale (
yahoo news link here). It quotes Motion Picture Assn. of America president Bob Pisano that 90% of pirated films worldwide are the result of camcording. Schemes to cut off the practice include getting laws passed against such camcording and campaigns to get theater owners to throw camcorders out of the theater and patrons to report the practice to the theater manager.
The story also notes that pirated copies of films currently showing in one country are made from DVDs already released in another country. The industry wants to stop the original sale while the film is still in theaters in another country.
For anyone who has ever lived in a low-income country (not to mention New York City), getting laws passed and enforced against film piracy is sisyphusian.