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The number of illegally downloaded films in the UK goes up nearly 30% in five years, new figures seen by Newsbeat suggest.

How many of you remember the film The Expendables? It was an action flick, featuring some of the biggest names in blowing things up, and soon it will be known as the film that has created the largest illegal-BitTorrent-downloading case in U.S. history.

The film industry is one of the most ardent fighters against piracy, using as a weapon in many cases, lawsuits against people who download their content. However, there are few who seek an alternative way to generate revenue or to change the system so far have used.

The US Senate Judiciary Committee passed legislation on Thursday that would give US law enforcement more tools to crack down on websites engaged in piracy of movies, television shows and music.

The file-hosting service Rapidshare is seeking major entertainment industry partners for an online store where links to infringing material will redirect to.

Download sites Kazaa and The Pirate Bay look set to join Napster in being resurrected as paid-for services.

Whether or not such online attention hurt "Wolverine" at the boxoffice is debatable, but Fox's assertion of 4 million is about FOUR times greater than previous estimates.

Four men behind a Swedish file-sharing Web site used by millions to exchange movies and music have been found guilty of collaborating to violate copyright law in a landmark court verdict in Stockholm.

Gerardo Arellano and his wife, Maribel Fernandez, both 32, were arrested after police officers found him with the camera balanced on his leg during a showing in South Barrington of the new Miley Cyrus movie, the weekend's top money maker, officials said.

By now, you've probably heard that a non-watermarked, DVD-quality copy of "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" has made its way onto the Web. The question now posed by CHUD -- and folks in the Fox boardroom, no doubt -- is how it happened.