Warner Bros., the studio behind box office hit "The Dark Knight" is cracking down on sites which provide access to pirated copies of the film, which crossed a record $158 million in its opening weekend.
Copies of the new Batman film were found at several websites, CNET News reported.
"We actively search for these sites and services and have them taken down," Craig Hoffman, a spokesman for Warner Bros.' worldwide antipiracy and technical operations told CNET.
"While so far we have had compliance with our requests, we certainly reserve our rights to take whatever legal action necessary to protect our intellectual property."
He said it was "impossible to monitor every single screening" to prevent pirated copies from being recorded.
Despite heavy promotion of the film however, Hoffman added that "not a single copy" of the movie came out before the official release.
Hoffman said there existed a poorly lit "camcorded copy" that he believes, but cannot prove was released 48 hours after film's release.

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