In an effort to stamp out online movie piracy, the Motion Picture Association of America uses a special search engine to scour the Internet for people who swap digital copyright movies online.
“We are not blocking the use of any applications or access to any Web sites,” said Mark Harrad, a spokesman for Time Warner Cable. “But we are doing various things to manage bandwidth better and to interfere with people who are in violation of (their) service agreements.” He declined to elaborate on interference techniques, but denied the effort was specifically targeted at people swapping music and movie files, saying the issue is bandwidth hogs, not piracy.
Between 400,000 and 600,000 copies of movies are downloaded illegally each day, according to the consulting firm Viant. “Our industry could be damaged as much as the music industry,” said Ken Jacobsen, senior vice president of worldwide anti-piracy at the MPAA. Full article HERE
