On a 2004 trip to Pakistan, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., flipped on the television in his hotel room to find scantily clad American film starlet Halle Berry prowling the night in search of justice in the title role in "Catwoman." The femme fatale's box office flop "surprised me on a number of levels," he told a Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus briefing Thursday.

Not only was the Emmy-winning actress's risqué costume an eye-opener, but the fact the movie was airing on state-run TV was a shock because the film was still playing in theaters in the United States. "How can that be?" Schiff thought to himself. Unless the Central Asian country was "on the quick-to-TV route," something was amiss.

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