Archive for the 'mpaa' Category
Saturday, June 25th, 2011
Earlier this year, member companies of the MPAA filed a lawsuit against the Hotfile file-hosting service and ever since the parties have been back and forth submitting and responding to court papers. Now it seems that the MPAA want Hotfile to hand over just about every piece of data the company holds, from the IP addresses of uploaders and downloaders to the company’s source code.
Source: Hotfile Battles MPAA Over Private User Data Disclosure
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Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
A partnership between the RIAA, MPAA and the major ISPs, which would see the latter taking action against infringing customers, has been confirmed. If final agreement is reached – a point believed to be as close as next month – ISPs including AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon will begin taking increasingly severe measures against pirating customers.
Source: MPAA, RIAA, Major ISPs Preparing ‘Graduated Response’ To Piracy
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
According to a disclosure report, the MPAA spent $400,000 lobbying a wide range of US government departments in the first quarter of 2011 including the FBI, Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, ICE and the Vice President’s Office. Issues on the table include so-called “rogue sites” including RapidShare, streaming, graduated response (3 strikes) and domain seizures.
Source: MPAA Anti-Piracy Lobbying Targets FBI, DOJ, ICE, DHS and Biden
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Thursday, May 12th, 2011
The bizarre-yet-brilliant streaming movie service Zediva recently punched a hole straight through the MPAA’s restrictive licensing roadblocks. Now the fledgling outfit is facing the legal might of Hollywood who want to bomb it back to the Stone Age. Perhaps surprisingly, Zedivca aren’t rolling over and have instead compiled a dream team of lawyers to fight back.
Source: Movie Streamers Line Up Heavyweight Lawyers To Fight MPAA
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Saturday, April 23rd, 2011
Last year the BitTorrent search engine isoHunt filed an appeal in their case with the MPAA. With the appeal isoHunt hopes to overturn a District Court ruling that obligates the site to operate an MPAA-approved censorship filter. The case is still ongoing and the Appeal Court has now granted Google the opportunity to chime in as well, leading to critical comments from both the MPAA and isoHunt.
Source: Google, MPAA and isoHunt Clash in Court
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Wednesday, April 20th, 2011
MPAA Vice President Greg Frazier has made some interesting comments on copyright and widespread Internet piracy during a lobbying visit to Brazil. Among other things, Frazier told a local newspaper that democratizing culture is not in the interests of the MPAA. As it turns out, the MPAA’s definition of creativity and culture is a rather narrow one that is quite different from that of the general public.
Source: MPAA: “Democratizing Culture Is Not In Our Interest”
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Thursday, April 7th, 2011
As the entertainment industries eye the apparent emerging threat of so-called cyberlocker online storage sites, it was inevitable that at some point they would pick a fight with one of them. That unlucky target is Florida-based Hotfile and although it has chosen to settle lawsuits in the past, the company appears to be standing strong and has filed a motion to dismiss.
Source: Hotfile Files To Dismiss In Pivotal MPAA vs Cyberlocker Lawsuit
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Thursday, April 7th, 2011
As the entertainment industries eye the apparent emerging threat of so-called cyberlocker online storage sites, it was inevitable that at some point they would pick a fight with one of them. That unlucky target is Florida-based Hotfile and although it has chosen to settle lawsuits in the past, the company appears to be standing strong and has filed a motion to dismiss.
Source: Hotfile Files To Dismiss In Pivotal MPAA vs Cyberlocker Lawsuit
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Tuesday, April 5th, 2011
In a bizarre yet brilliant example of how messed up the current copyright restrictions are, six major movie studios have filed a new lawsuit against the quasi DVD-rental outfit Zediva. Under the flag of the MPAA, the studios label the new business as a “sham,” because it uses a clever way to bypass a licensing roadblock.
Source: MPAA ‘Goes Nuts’ With New Movie Streaming Lawsuit
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Tuesday, April 5th, 2011
In a bizarre yet brilliant example of how messed up the current copyright restrictions are, six major movie studios have filed a new lawsuit against the quasi DVD-rental outfit Zediva. Under the flag of the MPAA, the studios label the new business as a “sham,” because it uses a clever way to bypass a licensing roadblock.
Source: MPAA ‘Goes Nuts’ With New Movie Streaming Lawsuit
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