The BBC News website asked for your queries about the way new technology is being used - and the eight sharpest and most pertinent questions were put to the virtual panel.

Click on each question to read the answers.

Q1. Will fans choose how they want to watch? Q3. Why not have simultaneous global release? Q5. What's being done to save cinemas? Q7. What's the point of DRM?

Q2. Why not illegally download? Q4. Why have region encoding on DVDs? Q6. Why have anti-piracy trailers? Q8. Was the video recorder damaging?

The film panel comprises:

• Dan Glickman, chairman and chief executive of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), which represents major Hollywood film studios and is leading the global fight against piracy.

• Lavinia Carey, director general of the British Video Association (BVA), the trade body for the UK video and DVD industry, which has been central to the British anti-piracy campaign.

• Curt Marvis, chief executive of CinemaNow, which is billed as the leading legal movie download service, allowing fans to watch or buy films over the internet.

• John Fithian, president of the National Association of Theatre Owners, which represents US cinemas.