With fewer online sources to obtain illegal copies of recent Hollywood blockbusters, the amount of movies downloaded this year seems to follow a similar downward trend as illegal television show downloads.
With millions of Harry Potter fans swarming theaters this weekend, it's inevitable that the well-reviewed film will demolish previous records at the box office. The first casualty are the sparkling vampires of Twilight.
The fourth film in the franchise, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides delivers all the requisite action ingredients, but without the spark of life that animated its more successful predecessors.
The second trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides has Jack Sparrow fighting off mermaids, zombies and Blackbeard, on his way to plunder the summer box-office.