UK film distributors are funding the appointment of an investigator who'll be trying to help prevent the copying of films within cinemas - something that's typically carried out with camcorders.

The new Theatrical Investigator is a former police officer said to have spent five years working for a media company "in an investigative capacity". Although, the post is funded by the Film Distributors’ Association (FDA), the sleuth is working for The Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT), the trade organisation set up to protect the film and broadcasting industries against illegal copying.

FACT says that the threat from in-cinema copying in the UK is increasing because more major movies are being released simultaneously worldwide - with the highest risk being in the first few days after a film’s release. Presumably, then, the problem had been largely confined to the USA where most block-busters films had been released first.

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