Comments on: MPAA: Illegal Movie Streaming is Still Theft

By: Seeing ≠ stealing

Seeing ≠ stealing — Fri, 06 May 2011 03:04:30 +0000

If I see something I didn’t have to pay to see, I’m stealing it???? Man, I stole a lot of cars today! Just another way for the government to keep our eyes covered 24/7. Idiot lawyers.

By: o b 1

o b 1 — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:58:42 +0000

So what there saying is if my friend steals a movie from someone or a store and comes over to my house and we watch it i’m getting charged for stealing it to? That makes zero sense. If a TV station puts a movie on there network that they don’t have the rights to show whos going to get sued the viewers or the people that put it on? You cant control the internet get over it already you can try but you can’t thats why its called the world wide web anyone in the world can get access from anywhere that its available and every country has there own set of laws. Why do you think sites like piratebay are still around it can’t be stoped!!

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Sat, 22 Jan 2011 16:07:03 +0000

[...] Copyright attorney Steve Englund said while individuals whom post copyrighted material online without permission are indeed committing a crime, those watching that material may not necessarily be guilty of anything. “It is a little more complicated question whether it is illegal to watch it when someone else has put it online,” he said. Mickie Piatt, law professor and interim director of the Intellectual Property Law program at Chicago-Kent College of Law, said there are “some criminal penalties, but those have not been used as much.” MPAA: Illegal Movie Streaming is Still Theft [...]

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Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:31:58 +0000

[...] it’s just as illegal as downloading (via torrent or P2P), copyright attorney Steve Englund says that those watching that material may not necessarily be guilty of [...]

By: just a passer by

just a passer by — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 21:55:21 +0000

COICA

In the United States, a new law proposal called The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) was introduced last week, and there will be a hearing in front of the Judiciary Committee this Thursday.

If passed, this law will allow the government, under the command of the media companies, to censor the internet as they see fit, like China and Iran do, with the difference that the sites they decide to censor will be completely removed from the internet and not just in the US.

Please see the following article from the Huffington Post for more information.

Stop the Internet Blacklist

And if you are a US citizen, please take the time to sign this petition
DemandProgress.org – Petition to Stop the Internet Blacklist!

Update: Also for US citizens, you can email your Senator from the following link and tell him or her your concerns about this bill

Tell Your Senator: No Website Blacklists, No Internet Censorship!

Update, from EFF’s website: the Senate Judiciary Committee postponed the scheduled markup of the Internet censorship bill — a fantastic outcome, given that the entertainment industry and their allies in Congress had hoped this bill would be quickly approved before the Senators went home for the October recess. Massive thanks to all who used the EFF Action Center to write to your Senators to oppose this bill.

By: Bill Ishman

Bill Ishman — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 00:54:24 +0000

Great Article. I agree with the views of the MPAA on video piracy. Many believe that movies and music on the internet should be free for the taking. If movie piracy continues at this rate, good movies will be a thing of the past. Why should hollywood produce a movie if it’s going to be posted on the internet for free. I have put together a site that shows only legal movies and it has really been an up-hill battle. My visitors don’t stick around to long for these reasons.
1. To many commercials during the hulu.com embed movies. (These commercials help pay for the right to view the movie.)
2. Most of the public domain movies I show are in black and white and very old.
3. No new movies on my site. Most are at least 10 years old and not 10 star rated movies( one thumb up). They want movies that are still in theaters and have not been released on dvd yet.
I have made about 75.00 on my site so far this year,but I’m not giving up yet. By the way,,,how does google video and youtube get away with posting thousands of illegal movies on their site.
Anyways my website url is http://www.amazingvids.org
If you see any movies that are not 100% legal on my site, hit the contact me link and let me know.

By: johndoe

johndoe — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:45:04 +0000

So to make a long story short, that article seems to be saying that streaming (watching) a tv show online (for instance on megavideo or something like this) is not considered as being a crime when quoting

‘Copyright attorney Steve Englund said while individuals whom post copyrighted material online without permission are indeed committing a crime, those watching that material may not necessarily be guilty of anything.’

is it true then ?

By: wayne

wayne — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:49:35 +0000

HELLO, CAN I MEET GIRLS HERE ?

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:56:07 +0000

losing money? From what I understand both the Movie AND the Record industry have reported record profits almost every quarter for several years.

Get your facts straight.

By: Feds Seize 7 Linking Websites, 1 Cyberlocker for Infringement

Feds Seize 7 Linking Websites, 1 Cyberlocker for Infringement — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:00:52 +0000

[...] year the MPAA made illegal video streaming websites a top priority. It began comparing it to physical theft as though there is a finite number of digital copies to that can be [...]