MPAA names its Top 25 movie piracy schools
The MPAA may be gearing up for an RIAA-inspired assault on US colleges and universities. Last week the group announced its support for the "Curb Illegal Downloading on College Campuses Act (2007)," and MPAA head Dan Glickman said that his organization would work with school administrators to put an end [...]
MPAA anti-piracy dogs now face ‘chemical weapons’
The war on the MPAA’s Malaysian CD sniffing dogs heats up as “Lucky” and “Flo” now face chemical sprays designed to mask polycarbonates.
I mentioned last week how Lucky and Flo, the MPAA’s Malaysian anti-piracy disc sniffing dogs,were the new target of “syndicate bosses” after having been so successful in assisting with the recent seizure [...]
Wanted dead or alive: 2 MPAA anti-piracy dogs
It seems a contract’s been put out on the MPAA’s Malaysian anti-piracy disc sniffing dogs, with “syndicate bosses” offering an undisclosed bounty for their heads.
After a recent seizure of almost $3 million USD worth of pirated DVDs and VCDs, “syndicate bosses” have put a contract out on the 2 optical disc sniffer dogs the [...]
MPAA: “2006 was a bullish year for the film business” ????
So does this mean that all of the gloom and doom about illegal P2P and file-sharing services is a bunch of “bull” as well?.
According to a new MPAA press release, 2006 was a great time to be in the movie biz, domestically, and in particular, internationally, thereby heaping a ton of skepticism upon all [...]
US trains new ELITE Swedish anti-piracy police force
Look out Pirate Bay, the FBI and the MPAA have joined forces to create a new Swedish anti-piracy ‘p2p’ “hit squad”.
Never one to let its interests anywhere in the world go unprotected, the United States govt and the MPAA have teamed up with the Swedish govt to create an elite corps of Swedish anti-piracy police. [...]
Do delays in TV programming cause piracy?
A new Australian study says “huge delays” in airing overseas TV programming locally are to blame for an increase in piracy in the Land Down Under.
The UK’s Sky TV blunder back in 2004, where a delay in airing it in the United States by some 3 months led to its widespread distribution over P2P [...]
BitTorrent signs deal with movie studios for online download service
BitTorrent Inc, developer of a popular online file-sharing tool, says it has reached licensing deals that will boost the number of movies and TV shows it can offer as part of a video download service launching next year.
The privately held company said Tuesday it had signed agreements with Viacom Inc.’s Paramount Pictures, News Corp.’s 20th [...]
MPAA: “you can’t convert your own DVDs”
The MPAA takes another swipe at fair use rights and aims to stop users from being able to convert DVDs that they own.
In another nonsensical move by the MPAA, Load ‘N Go Video has been sued by the MPAA for “illegally” converting users’ DVDs and them loading them onto the users’ iPods for [...]
MPAA v Shawn Hogan: The Zeropaid Interview PART 2
After more than a year and a half of legal wrangling, it comes down to the fact that the Universal City entity that sued Shawn, Productions LLLP, isn’t even the true copyright holder. Studios LLLP filed the initial copyright registration of “Meet the Fockers” and apparently erred in transferring it to Productions LLLP. Since Studios [...]
How the MPAA knows where movies are Pirated
I’ve posted a story about the MPAA’s piracy stats, and that NY is the pirate capital of the world. In the post I said that it was hard to track down the source of CAM releases, but that was a mistake.
cap codeAlthough I’m familiar with the watermarks that are put in DVD’s, I never realized [...]
