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Summer has always been a profitable season for Hollywood, as millions of people buy tickets to see new blockbuster movies. But this summer is also a time of worry and fear for Americas film studios, because the pirates of the Internet are gaining on them. Almost every new film can now be found on the Internet -- and downloaded for free as soon as its released, and sometimes even before. As Correspondent Lesley Stahl first reported last year, it may be illegal, but its becoming easier and easier to do. The people running Americas movie studios know that if they dont do something - fast - they could be in the same boat as the record companies.But whats really at stake for the movie industry with all this piracy? ?Ultimately, our absolute future,? says Peter Chernin, who runs 20th Century Fox, one of the biggest studios in Hollywood. He knows the pirates of the Internet are gaining on him. ?I think its probably in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions,? says Chernin. ?Its only gonna grow. Somebody can put a perfect digital copy up on the Internet. And with the click of a mouse, send out a million copies all over the world, in an instant.?And its all free. Chernin organized a summit between studio moguls and some high school and college kids -- the people most likely to be downloading. ?And we said, ?Lets come up with a challenge,? says Chernin. ?Lets give them five movies, and see if they can find them online. And we all sat around and picked five movies, four of which havent been released yet. And then we came back half-an-hour later. They had found all five movies that we gave them.? Did these kids have any sense that they were stealing??I think they know its stealing, and I dont think they think its wrong,? says Chernin. ?I think they have an attitude of, ?Its there.?? An Internet copy of the hit movie, Signs, starring Mel Gibson, was stolen even before director M. Night Shyamalan could organize the premiere.In fact, Shyamalan said the