Illegal downloads and bootleg sales continues to be bad for business for Tinseltown, and the powers-that-be in Hollywood are getting tough and is lobbying for strong intellectual property laws to be adopted in the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Marketplace.org reports that Anissa Brennan, vice president for International Affairs and Trade Policy at the Motion Picture Association of America, is calling for the treaty to follow U.S. law, which doesn't allow movie goers to film what's on the screen, then sell illegal copies.

She explains in a recent article on marketplace.org, “If you go into a theater and you record a film without the permission of the theater owner, it's a criminal act.” She is also calling for the trade deal to extend copyrights to the life of the author plus 70 years.