At a press conference held at a film festival in Lima, Peru, the French actress Isabelle Huppert likened certain movie pirating to renegade heroism. The conference was held in response to the question of pirating European and Asian films to make them accessible in Latin America and challenge the quasi-Monopoly of Hollywood.

“It’s like Robin Hood who steels for the poor,” said Huppert. And yet, she was not explicit about whether or not she was in favor of such pirating. In China, she added, where her movie The Pianist (2001) would have never been released in most theaters, plenty of people got to see it on pirated DVDs.

Peru, reports Le Figaro, is a country where 90% of DVDs in circulation are pirated.