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Jun 17 2007

TV Links lets you watch movies on-demand for FREE

Everybody loves watching movies for free, especially when it’s easy, involves no P2P or BitTorrent downloading, and you can actually find something worth watching.
I’ve written before about how Peekvid, Movin Flicks, and Junk Nova are a few of the many good places to find movies to watch for free on-demand but, I’ve never really mentioned [...]

Jun 15 2007

MPAA Wants New Global Anti-Piracy Offensive

Wants the US Govt to crack down on copyright infringement.
MPAA head Dan Glickman testified before Congress yesterday during a hearing titled “Trade Enforcement for a 21st Century Economy” about the need to better enforce intellectual property rights overseas.
“The U.S. motion picture industry depends heavily on revenue from overseas market,” said Glickman. [...]

Jun 15 2007

Former MPAA Boss Calls Attempted Screener Ban a ‘Sad Defeat’

Jack Valenti’s memoirs detail his troubled battle to ban screener releases that in 2002 saw half of the 68 released wind up in the hands of pirates.
In his newly published memoirs, Jack Valenti, former long-running MPAA boss, calls his failed attempts to ban screener releases “…a sad piece of business.”
He grew angry in [...]

Jun 14 2007

Boston University student fights back against the RIAA

Argues it’s a flawed theory that merely having copyrighted content on ones PC constitutes illegal distribution.
In Arista v. Does 1-21, the Boston case brought by the RIAA to obtain the identities of 21 Boston University students, a motion to block the RIAA from finding the names of the users behind the IP addresses accused [...]

Jun 14 2007

French music copyright group sues Azureus, Morpheus, and Shareaza

SPPF sues several US-based file-sharing program developers over the fact that their software can be used to distribute copyrighted content illegally.
The Society of Phonogram Producers in France (the Société des Producteurs de Phonogrammes for you Francophones) has filed a lawsuit against the developers of Azureus, Shareaza, and Morpheus for their failure to prevent the [...]

Jun 14 2007

AT&T teams up with the RIAA and MPAA to fight piracy

First ISP to team up with copyright holders to to keep pirated content off its network.
It seems AT&T Inc is joining forces with the MPAA and RIAA to keep pirated content off its internet network, making it the first ISP to do so, and perhaps heralding a new age where providers begin to police [...]

Jun 14 2007

Michael Moore’s new documentary “Sicko” leaked on BitTorrent

Won’t have to worry about copies getting seized by the Feds after all as his new controversial film makes its way around BitTorrent tracker sites everywhere.
A couple of days ago it was reported that Michael Moore had decided to stash a copy of his latest and greatest documentary “Sicko,” an apparently scathing expose on [...]

Jun 14 2007

Omnifone launches music subscription service for European cell phone users

Will allow consumers to download an unlimited number of music tracks to their cell phones for about 3 euros ($4 USD) a week.
Trying to get a jump start on the soon to be released Apple iPhone to be released on June 29th, the UK-based Omniphone has announced the launch of anew service called MusicStation [...]

Jun 11 2007

RIAA targets 395 more college students

Pre-litigation settlement letters sent to 19 different universities in this latest crackdown on P2P and file-sharing programs on college campuses.
The RIAA has begun a new round of campus piracy crackdowns with 395 students at 19 different universities being sent pre-litigation letters.
This is the latest installment of its “education and deterrence campaign” that [...]

Jun 11 2007

Universal exec says ‘music artists need us!’

Also hints that record companies should get a cut of concerts, merchandising, sponsorship, song-writing, etc to make up for declining revenue in other areas.
Max Hole, President, Asia Pacific Region and Executive Vice-President, Marketing and A&R for Universal Music Group International recently gave his [...]

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  • Nelia: yeah in the meantime just upload it to sites and p2p programs to say fuck the /cartel...
  • mountain_rage: It will be interesting to see how many people sign up to a second ISP to hide their transfers by encrypting and dividing...
  • manakazero: So she's in favor of organized crime making money off her work. Great - everyone loses!...
  • mountain_rage: The problem with Hollywood, and the copyright lobby is that they are surrounded by like minded people with a distorted v...
  • _mark: Do it and the sharers will share sidestepping the ISP entirely via wireless networks....
  • Raven: The internet is a vital platform of democracy, free speech, employment, and a million other things. It's more important ...
  • axxis: I agree. One in the head and one in the ass....
  • FOX FILMS: We Should Disconnect File-Sharers Like France: [...] Edge Films saw their movie Ink recently uploaded to several BitTorrent tracker sites and were subsequently amazed ...
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