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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
MPAA targets libraries and schools in Singapore
Asia continues to be the focus of the MPAA, for in a world first it will distribute anti-piracy brochures to every library and school in the nation city-state of Singapore ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Japan on MPAA map
Law-abiding Japan might seem far from the frontlines of Asia's piracy wars, but don't tell that to Motion Picture Assn. chairman-CEO Dan Glickman.
Glickman delivered the keynote address Thursday at the ...
MPAA sponsors Boy Scout piracy badge
The MPAA has opened a new front in their often Orwellian attempts to indoctrinate today's youth about copyrights and piracy. Their latest plan of action has been aimed at the ...
