a little older news (one week old)
but still makes for interesting reading:
'Spidey' Already Being Swapped By Online Pirates
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.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176387.html