Spider-Man Already Being Swapped By Online Pirates!

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While Columbia Picture's new "Spider-Man" movie was breaking box-office records over the weekend, Internet movie pirates were busily downloading free copies of the film on file-trading networks.

By Saturday, pirated versions of the comic book inspired movie were showing up in "screener" format on the EDonkey, Kazaa, and Morpheus Internet file-swapping systems. "Screeners," also known as "Telesyncs," are digital versions of movies that have been filmed off a screen in a movie theater.

The boot-legged "Spider-Man" was being offered in Windows AVI and MPEG file formats, with some versions of the complete movie exceeding 2 gigabytes.

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