While major entertainment corporations are working hard at censoring the internet in the United States through the PROTECT IP Act, it corporate sponsored censorship has already become a reality in ...
PROTECT IP Act would give the Department of Justice the power to force ISPs and search engines to block access to infringing sites. Bill now moves forward to a full ...
Call the move "baffling," and a form of a "corporate imperialism." Say proposed US net filter doesn't compare to China's "Great Firewall" because China's filter isn't "bi-partisan" or "narrowly ...
Notes that "Studios do not deny that Hotfile scrupulously complies with the DMCA safe harbor provisions," and yet they "complain that they are 'left to play catch-up' because of the ...
Warns that if the govt doesn't make it "clear that this kind of activity is illegal, it has the potential to become the harbinger of even more forms ...
Bob Pisano, President and Interim CEO of the MPAA, claims it's "impossible to compete with free," yet the MPAA seems to have figured out how to do just ...
Says its Internet account was "identified as having been used recently to copy and/or distribute illegally" the movie "The Green Hornet" and warns the search engine giant that copyright infringement ...
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 ...
Claims that every file hosted on the site is responsible for the "theft of thousands of MPAA member companies‟ movies and TV shows." Says that unlike other legitimate cyberlockers Hotfile ...
When analyzing the anti-infringement activities of the content owning industries (RIAA, MPAA, etc.) it is often far more interesting to focus on the results of what they do, rather than ...
BREIN teams up with the MPAA to shutdown more unnamed "illegal sites," but does it even matter?
BREIN has been one of the more prolific anti-P2P groups over the years, ...
The Hollywood film industry, or at least its official representatives in the MPAA, likes to talk tough about efforts to combat movie piracy on the internet. They rabidly support DRM ...
Launches "Piracy Doesn't Work in NYC," campaign, the goal being to try and put a human spin on the job losses it claims illegal file-sharing causes each year, but ...
A few days ago, we reported on the defeat of web censorship in Spain where ISPs would be mandated to block websites if the government ordered them to ...
Yesterday, we reported on the RIAAs efforts to get Mastercard to cut off payments to MegaUpload. Today, we have received an exclusive response from MegaUpload on this ...
Earlier, we reported that the MPAA, RIAA and the BSA had influenced the push for HADOPI in France according to the Wikileaks ever-present cablegate story. It now ...
Wikileaks has been releasing plenty of new details on how the US views the world. Amongst the interesting tidbits of information buried inside Cablegate was what role the MPAA, ...
Takes fight against illegal file-sharing to a whole new level by allowing foreign groups to seize US-based domain names before the accused have even had a chance to plead their ...
Tells Commerce Dept in reply to a "Notice of Inquiry" that the "role of lawsuits in solving the online theft problem is clearly limited," and that it needs ISPs ...
Daniel M. Mandil, the MPAA's Chief Content Protection Officer reminds college presidents of their obligations under the Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA) of 2008 to fight illegal P2P on campus ...
