French Report – Legal Punishment for Filesharing as Severe as Manslaughter
One of the criticisms of copyright laws has, for some time, been that the punishment is far too severe for the crime being committed. This debate is nothing new ...
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16 Year Old Faces Multiple Years in Prison for Linking to Copyrighted Material
The owner of a website called cinema-world.biz is now facing multiple years in prison for linking to copyrighted material. According to Czech anti-piracy outfit, it's the first time an ...
Hollywood Employees in US Hit Hard By OutSourcing
There's never been a shortage of press releases over the years about the MPAA blaming piracy for massive job losses. The numbers never seemed to add up given that ...
DRM and Firmware Update Locks Thousands of Movie Fans Out of Their Movies
Another day, another story about copy protection locking legitimate customers from the very content they legally purchased. So for your viewing pleasure, we present yet another horror story of ...
Philippine Federal Police and the MPA Reach Agreement to Combat Piracy
The Philippine Federal Police (PNP) and the Motion Picture Association (MPA) have reached an agreement to work more closely together to combat movie piracy. The agreement includes influence from ...
Records Fall As UK Movie Industry Profits Soar
It's not a well kept secret, but it is facts like this that copyright holders would rather keep quiet when discussing online piracy. This isn't the first time movies ...
“The Expendables” Trailer: Watch in F-ing Theater, Not Off BitTorrent!
Star-studded action flic issues a "call to arms" for men to take back theaters from chic-flics like "Twilight," "Sex in the City," and especially Julia Robert's forthcoming "Eat, Pray, Love."
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Canadian Documentarians Infuriated Over Copyright Legislation
It only took hours after Canada's latest copyright reform bill for there to be condemnation. The Documentary Organization of Canada (DOC) said that they were "dismayed" at the copyright ...
Apple Rumoured to Be Preparing to Sue Open Source Codec Developers
An e-mail reportedly from Steve Jobs has recently surfaced which suggests that Apple may be preparing to sue Theora and other open source video codecs. The dispute would revolve ...
MPAA Enjoys Even More Record Breaking Profits
It's doubtful the next anti-piracy press release would make mention of this, but apparently the MPAA is enjoying a record breaking Christmas box office this year - capping ...
IIPA Blames Canada for Movie Piracy (Again)
Many observers who take particular interest in Canadian issues surrounding copyright might find this to be a broken record, but a copyright lobby group is, once again, demanding that Canada ...
Reports – MPAA Sued for Defamation Over Piracy Lawsuit
It may be an interesting case. After receiving a lawsuit for copyright infringement late last year, reports are surfacing that the website is now suing the MPAA ...
Open Rights Group Urges on Fight to Stop Copyright Extension
Two years ago, copyright extension in the UK was shot down. Now copyright extension is not only back in the spot light for the British, but it ...
Report: Unauthorized UK Downloaders to be Cut Off
A recent report has many buzzing over the possibility that British ISP's might start become the copyright police.
The report contains the following:
A draft consultation suggests internet service providers ...
Thai Police Busts Bootleg Operation
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has announced (PDF) that 25,000 DVDs were confiscated and 5 arrests were made in a Bangkok bust.
The Motion Picture Association were congratulating police ...
3 Quick Ways to Watch Movies for FREE!
Want to watch movies for FREE? This "How To" guide will teach you how to find movies to watch for FREE on-demand or via BitTorrent download so that you ...
DVDs outsell music for first time, says Virgin
Virgin Megastores defied the gloom in the entertainment market over Christmas, pushing its underlying sales ahead by 4.6% in the four weeks to December 30 and increasing its market share.
Its ...
Cell in Theater Could Lead to a Cell in Prison
Sometimes before advance screenings, security guards will confiscate camera phones for the duration of the movie in order to prevent piracy. Most people's reaction is to question the likelihood of ...
Networking: Downloading movies a hit
Consumer spending on mobile networking applications -- mobile search, movie downloads and other innovative applications -- surged in the United States and overseas during the just-completed quarter, sources tell UPI's ...
Movie downloads coming to the UK in July
Film downloads are finally coming to the UK, with support from Universal Pictures and Wippit, the music file-sharing site. The service will be enabled by the end of July with ...
