MPAA Defends Web Censorship Legislation
Interim MPAA head Bob Pisano says the First Amendment "was not intended as a shield for those who steal, irrespective of the means," but ...
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RIAA Submits its Own List of “Notorious Markets”
Music industry follows the lead of the MPAA and submits its own list of the world's "most notorious markets" to the Deputy Assistant of the Office of the US Trade ...
MPAA Submits List of World’s “Most Notorious Markets”
Singles out BitTorrent trackers, Cyberlockers, Usenet, and even linking sites in a letter submitted to the Office of the US Trade Representative, but also unfairly includes physical "notorious markets" where ...
An Experiment in “Red”
One of the frustrating issues for analysts of the file-sharing phenomenom is that so much of what we know, or think we know, about it rests not on ...
MPAA Urges Japan to Adopt “Three-Strikes”
Motion Picture Association of American President Bob Pisano refers to rising online copyright infringement as an "epidemic," and that only by disconnecting file-sharers from the Internet can countries "slow the ...
Movie Industry Says It’s Dying – Way Back in 1959
Mary Pickford, co-founder of United Artists, said that she thinks she has seen the "death of motion pictures" thanks to the advent of TV, which she believes will be the ...
MPAA Wants to Block “Damaging” Sites Like WikiLeaks?
Asks Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) negotiators at Mexico's Ministry of the Economy if the treaty could be used to cut off Mexico's and other countries access to "damaging" sites such ...
“Expendables” Trailer KIA by the MPAA
Fan-produced trailer that exhorted men to watch the movie “not off your torrents” but “in a fucking theater where violence belongs" falls victim to a DMCA takedown request ...
ISOHunt Receives Permanent Injunction in US Court
It's been an ongoing case against ISOHunt in the US and new court documents were released that shows that ISOHunt has been dealt with a permenant injunction in the US. ...
Congress’ Anti-Piracy Caucus Unveils List of World’s Most “Notorious” Sites
Joins RIAA and MPAA in blaming China’s Baidu, Canada’s IsoHunt, Ukraine’s mp3fiesta, Germany’s RapidShare, Luxembourg’s RMX4U.com and Sweden’s The Pirate Bay for being "overwhelmingly used...for the global ...
Pirate Bay Facing Disconnection?
MPAA wins injunction against the Swedish BitTorrent tracker site's main bandwidth provider, Cyberbunker's CB3ROB, threatening the ISP's owner with massive fines and jail time if it fails to comply.
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MPAA Successfully Kills TVs Record Button
If anyone thought the ideas around the Broadcast Flag have finally died off, they'd be dead wrong. Reports are coming in that the FCC has granted Selectable Output Control ...
MPAA to Pirate Bay: “Pay Up Already”
Film studios demand BitTorrent tracker site's co-founders each pay the 500,000 Swedish kronor ($69,313 USD) in fines ordered by a judge last October for failing to shutter the Pirate Bay, ...
P2P Threat? MPAA Global Tickets Sales Up 30% Since 2005!
MPAA reports global box office ticket sales reached an all time high of $29.9 billion in 2009, up 7.6% from 2008, and up an even more dramatic 30% from 2005!
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Court Maintains Ban on DVD Backup Software
Judge sides with MPAA in case against Real Network's RealDVD software that would allow consumers to make backup copies of purchased DVDs for personal use.
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RIAA: Google’s China Hack Ought to Make it Help Fight Piracy
RIAA CEO Mitch Bainwol makes the extraordinary leap in thought by comparing hacker attempts to steal source code and spy on the gMail accounts of human rights activists to the ...
FTC Warns 100 Companies About P2P Data Leaks
RIAA and MPAA quick to "welcome" news of another story chronicling the "abuse of P2P technology," and emphasizes the "serious threat" it poses to both consumers as well as copyright ...
Missouri Man Gets 2yr Prison Term for “Dark Knight” Cam
Drew MPAA investigator sting suspicions for wearing heavy winter coat in July, was confronted after movie whereby then camera was seized and police notified.
Robert L. Henderson, 42yo, of Grandview, Mo. ...
ACTA Falling Apart?
ACTA has been called many things over the years since it was first leaked online, but an all around failure was certainly not one of them until until the last ...
EFF and Study Authors Refute PFFs ‘Junk Science’ Claims
The Progress & Freedom Foundation (PFF) had some choice words expressed by a study on DMCA notices received by Google. While the posting was very pointed, the authors of ...
