

''I'm not going to see this in the theater - it's funny, but not that funny,'' said the employee, who asked that his name not be used because, by downloading an illegal copy of the ''Austin Powers'' sequel, he is breaking copyright laws and he does not want to incur the wrath of the film's producers. The picture, washed out and slightly murky, looked like a videotape copy of a public access television show.īut the one-man audience wasn't too disappointed, considering that he didn't pay to see the film in a theater he had downloaded and played a pirate version on his desktop. ONE recent Friday evening, an employee in a small New York new-media company enjoyed his own private screening of ''Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.'' The film's sound fell somewhere between hollow and muffled.
