All this takes place in Egypt and in all Arab countries because of the lack of laws that protect intellectual rights which must be enacted by the governments to strictly punish anyone who transgresses these rights and help the movie industry develop, especially in Egypt, as it is considered Hollywood of the Arab world. Also to make producers and actors feel that they are protected by strong laws that ensure the success of these films and getting their financial rights without fear of those who copy movies without their consent and sell it in the markets, depriving the real owners, such as producers and actors, of their rights.

All Western states that work on protecting people's rights are characterized by possessing strict laws that prevent encroaching on the intellectual rights of any person. So, we notice that the existence of such laws in these states has helped in promoting the movie industry, making it an important source of income in the national income of these states. That is because they forbid the recopying of these movies and selling them without the permission of their producer or the person responsible for selling them, to insure the absolute rights of those who have worked on these films. We notice that foreign actors get a certain amount of money for each sold CD of the movies in which they acted, even many years after the film was produced. This is what is known as copyrights, and there are laws that protect it from manipulation by film pirates, like what happens in our Arab world, especially Egypt, which is the most harmed country, as it is the largest country in terms of film production. Those stealing pirates get a copy of the film by illegal means, if the film is still in the cinemas, by recording the movie with cameras, and then they spread the movie, recopy it onto CDs and distribute it in the markets in its unoriginal copies at cheap prices. This makes the team of the movie not get anything; also, it makes the producers think that there is no financial profit from it. That’s why we notice that they do not care to spend much on Egyptian films, largely because they expect that the pirates will get a copy of the movie and distribute it without returning anything to them; this causes the film producers and the cinema industry in Egypt great loss. Undoubtedly, this causes a reduction in the cinema quality, because of the shortness of the financial allocation for producing movies.

There is a real pirating of Arab movies to the detriment of movie producers. In fact, producers bear many expenses and pay out wages to benefit from the movie revenues, by selling copies after the release of the movie. However, after showing the movie for the first time, it is recorded in different copies in the cinema. Then it is copied onto CDs and sold for cheap, as there is no supervision and no judiciary authorities to protect copyrights. In Europe, once the movie is released, the producer has some revenues from each DVD sold. However, in the Arab countries, counterfeited copies are sold in the streets and in the shops. This causes a significant loss to the movie producers. The film is immediately posted online, and then you can download and watch it at any time. Therefore, many movie producers have quit the field and turned to investing in more interesting fields, where they can guarantee their rights and secure their expenses. That’s why cinematographic productions have declined. The governments must guarantee the producers’ rights, as they spend huge amounts of money to shoot a movie; they pay the actors’ wages and other expenses to get the benefit of its revenues after its copyrighted release.

Pirating Arab movies has bad repercussions on Egyptian movie producers, as they will go bankrupt.

Egyptian films are very low in terms of content.

The Egyptian films represent the Arab cinema as a whole, and this is why we want it to progress, in terms of the methods and the ways in which these films that represent the Arab cinema in general are presented. The Arab-Egyptian cinema needs to go back to the Golden Age which it achieved in the past, and it should start producing the beautiful movies again, which everyone in every Arab country used to watch, both old and young. It is true that these new movies have their fans too, but that does not include everybody, since there are those who do not approve of them. This is proof that they do not satisfy the tastes of everyone, as they did in the past. Everybody should work together in order to make Egyptian cinema return to its original state, and quit copying foreign movies, because their stories are different from ours.