Ilya Marritz
Ilya Marritz covers business for WNYC.
Anti-Piracy Bill Gets Boost in Albany
Monday, May 05, 2008
New York, NY –
A long-stalled bill in Albany to fight piracy of TV shows and movies got a boost today.
Jeff Zucker, the president and CEO of NBC/Universal, urged state lawmakers to increase the penalty for first-time piracy offenders to a misdemeanor, up from a simple violation.
Zucker said failure to act could endanger one of America's most successful exports to the rest of the world: entertainment.
ZUCKER: There's a lot of talk these days about the state of the economy, the one sector of the economy that's not facing a slowdown, I think, is this one, and for pirates business is in fact booming.
REPORTER: He was at a press event with state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo who estimated that as much as 50 percent of the nation's pirated DVDs originate in the state of New York.
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