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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mention peer to peer and file sharing, and you can almost hear the collective groan of the entertainment executive businesses. They are quick to press the speed dial button for ...
The entertainment industry really likes to trot out its explanation for suing people and treating fans like criminals, always claiming that it just wants to "educate" people on copyright issues. ...
The New Zealand Federation Against Copyright (NZFACT) said today staff at a Hoyts cinema reported seeing a woman allegedly recording a movie trailer – which just happened to be an ...
Evil wrapped in Miami Vice.
I HAD THE misfortune of seeing the new Miami Vice movie Thursday night, but the experience wasn't all wasted, I stumbled upon the newest stealth rights ...
Kathy Hartness is a 47-year-old grandmother, churchgoer and gardener who had never been in trouble with the law -- until she was served with papers in June for something she ...
Crockett and Tubbs -- the crime fighting duo of "Miami Vice" -- woulda been proud.
West suburban police busted a Chicago man at a midnight showing of the new film "Miami ...
For years, the RIAA has claimed that having the IP address of a computer that has shared unauthorized files is the equivalent of having the evidence of who was actually ...
Yet another motion to dismiss a complaint has been denied in Texas, again with the judge saying that he has "incomplete understanding of the P2P technology at this stage" to ...
Chris from Zeropaid recently had the chance to sit down with Shawn Hogan, who is an interesting guy fighting an MPAA settlement agreement. Shawn was accused of downloading Meet ...
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) ended its “Operation Red Card” anti-piracy campaign in mid-July, declaring victory and citing a record number of illegal disc and optical disc burner seizures, the ...
Downloading media online has exploded throughout the years. Media downloading went from a niche hobby that few engaged in, to one of the largest uses of internet bandwidth. File-sharing started ...
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest has achieved a unique double; the swashbuckling sequel starring Johnny Depp became the fastest film to generate $300m at the US box office ...
