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 Tokyo Film Festival’s antipiracy seminar — and rattled off figures showing piracy losses in the market hit $742 million in 2005, some 15% of all [...]
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 Boy Scouts in Los Angeles, the city that serves as the heart and soul of the MPAA.
The MPAA has developed a curriculum that teaches [...]
Entertainent cartels vs US Students
The entertainment cartels have wheeled out yet another spurious ‘report’ custom-designed to “prove” most universities are hot-beds of illegality and most students are criminal p2p file sharers bent on ruining the profitability of the hard-pressed music and movie industries, simultaneously causing extreme distress to industry workers and contracted artists.
Backed by the AAU (Association of American [...]
MPAA steals British sniffer dogs
THE MPAA KNOWS a good thing when it sees one. Stories of computerless single mums being dragged screaming and penniless to the courthouse for allowing their daughters to listen to music online are all grist to its mill.
Its campaign to make people pay for stuff they can get for nothing thrives on the oxygen [...]
MPAA SUES CHINESE PIRATES
Opening a new front in their war against video pirates, the MPAA today (Wednesday) filed lawsuits against two shops in Beijing, China that allegedly stocked knock-off copies of The 40-Year-Old Virgin, The Incredibles, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, War of the Worlds and other titles. In an email to the Associated Press, Frank Rittman an MPAA [...]
Download time stops much movie vice
The Weekend Herald was taken through the process of downloading the recently released movie Miami Vice by a New Zealand “pirate” this week.
All we needed was a broadband internet connection – and a lot of time.
It began by downloading a software “client” that connected us to a so-called peer-to-peer sharing network. There were lots to [...]
Universities put Hollywood ahead of students
On the heels of yesterday’s post about USC’s lunatic copyright policy, many readers have written in with more examples of copyright lunacy on USC and other campuses, instances in which scholarship is being trumped by a desire to appease the entertainment industry, enforcing rules that don’t take any account of the limits put on copyright [...]
MPAA files lawsuits against local women for Internet piracy
Two Bakersfield women are in trouble with the law after investigators say they were selling movies that were illegally downloaded.
The Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) on behalf of the major motion picture studios filed four lawsuits today in District Court in Fresno. The suits claim the four illegally swapped movies online using peer-to-peer [...]
Redstone argues for flexible pricing
Sumner Redstone, chairman of Viacom and CBS, on Tuesday called for Hollywood to take a more flexible approach to pricing as it seeks to combat piracy and protect its intellectual property.
In a speech on Tuesday night, Mr Redstone suggested that studios might charge consumers one price for a single viewing of a digitally downloaded film, [...]
The Movie Piracy Debate – Dan Glickman vs. John Perry Barlow
This morning I watched a very interesting piece from the BBC that interviewed Dan Glickman, big cheese over at the Motion Picture Association, and John Perry Barlow (of The Greatful Dead). It was spliced together as if it were a debate each one commenting on the same point, although I got the feeling, that [...]
