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 [...]
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 [...]
