Financier for MPAA Members Arrested – Court Battle Looms
It may get a little harder for the MPAA to play the moral card – not to mention getting funding for movie production for it’s members.
It is no secret that the copyright industry likes to talk about morals when it comes to unauthorized downloading. Unfortunately for members of the MPAA, morals might be playing [...]
Copyright Industry Getting Slaughtered in the Stock Markets
The copyright industry, namely the RIAA and MPAA, have said for years that file-sharing has caused the industry billions of dollars and loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs. Now, the stock markets have shown that there are serious questions being raised about whether or not we are headed in a global recession – [...]
Jammie Thomas Case – Support for the RIAA Under the Name ‘Progress and Freedom’
Yesterday, we reported on the MPAA suggesting that “international obligations” allow corporations to sue individuals for copyright infringement without evidence. In the mean time, there is support for the RIAA from a seemingly mysterious entity known as the Progress & Freedom Foundation.
It may be confusing for some to see an entity that uses “progress” [...]
MPAA adds smoking as film-rating factor
Smoking will be a bigger factor in determining film ratings, the Motion Picture Association of America said Thursday, but critics said the move does not go far enough to discourage teens from taking up the habit.
MPAA Chairman Dan Glickman said his group’s ratings board, which previously had considered underage smoking in assigning film ratings, now [...]
Congress wants to question college IT officers about illegal file-sharing
Ask the presidents of the 19 top “piracy colleges” to make their campus IT officers fill out a survey on how their networks are being run.
Looking to help the RIAA and the MPAA crackdown on the ability of college students to use their campus networks for illegal file-sharing, Congress is taking the fight to [...]
New York cracks down on CAM bootlegs
MPAA says “The Big Apple” is where 43% of US CAMs are made and 20% of the ones found worldwide.
With the ongoing Tribeca film festival’s co-founder Joe Rosenthal in the background, NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced today increased penalties for those who make CAMs, camcorder movie theater bootlegs.
“Video piracy is not a victimless crime [...]
Elite Torrents fallout continues, defendant #6 pleads guilty
A sixth defendant has pleaded guilty in connection with Operation D-Elite, the govt’s first, and years long, crackdown on the infamous BitTorrent tracker site Elite Torrents.
Assistant Attorney General Alice Fisher of the Criminal Division and US Attorney Gregory White for the Northern District of Ohio have announced that a 6th defendant has pleaded guilty in [...]
MPAA: ‘We want consumers to have content whenever and wherever they want’
MPAA calls DRM an “enabling tool,” and that consumers who come by their content legally should be able to enjoy it “on any device,” anywhere, anytime.
In a keynote address to Variety Magazine’s Digital Rights Management Conference yesterday in Los Angeles, MPAA Chairman and CEO Dan Glickman laid out some interesting details of his organization’s efforts [...]
Govt Announces New Guilty Plea in Elite Torrents Bust
The infamous Star Wars III bootleg continues to haunt the BitTorrent community as the US Justice Dept announces another guilty plea as part of Operation D-Elite.
A fifth defendant has pleaded guilty in connection with Operation D-Elite, the first criminal enforcement action targeting individuals committing copyright infringement on a BitTorrent tracker site. [...]
MPAA’s ‘Lucky and Flo’ now unleashed on the Philippines
Malaysia crime bosses sigh in relief, step up porn production to offset losses, while Philippino movie pirates try to stash their goods before the canine cops can sniff it out.
The MPAA’s Lucky and Flo, the polycarbonate sniffing canine wonder duo, have apparently finished up their Malaysian crime-fighting adventures and have shown up in another [...]
