MPAA sues DVD chipmakers
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The Motion Picture Association of America&#39;s war on piracy took an unexpected turn this week with a new lawsuit. This time, instead of targeting pirates directly the MPAA has sued two microchip makers, Sigma Designs, Inc.
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Following in the footsteps of the RIAA, the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) announced that they have began filing lawsuits against people who use peer-to-peer software to download copyrighted movies off the Internet.
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Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), formed by major Hollywood movie studios, said Thursday it seeks to sue computer users suspected of illegally distributing movies over the Internet.
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South Korea&#39;s LG Electronics Inc.  (066570.KS), the world&#39;s top DVD player maker, filed suit  against Taiwan&#39;s Quanta (2382.TW), saying the world&#39;s biggest  contract maker of laptop computers infringed on its DVD  technology.
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Japan&#39;s Toshiba Corp., claiming patent infringement in flash-memory chips on the part of Korean semiconductor manufacturer Hynix, filed a lawsuit with Tokyo District Court on Monday.
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Facing a copyright lawsuit from MPAA, company is trying to avoid disclosing user information.
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The Academy Award-winning producer  behind the "Lord of the Rings" franchise has sued the films'  distributor, New Line Cinema, to force it to disclose its  accounting for the multibillion-dollar epic.
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A class action complaint has been filed against Samsung because of the BD-P1200's inability to play certain Blu-ray discs.
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November 10, 2004 ã¡ In the latest in a series of attempts by Japanese companies to defend their technological territory, electronics giant Toshiba sued Hynix Semiconductor yesterday for alleged violations of flash memory chip patents, which are key
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The representative for Hollywood's major movie studios on Monday said its members have sued two microchip makers, alleging they sold their products to makers of equipment that can be used to illegally copy DVDs.
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The Motion Picture Ass. of America (MPAA), along with its audio alternative, the Recording Industry Ass. of America (RIAA) are appealing against their failed appeal in a bid to make P2P software suppliers accountable for the actions of their users.
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The DVD Copy Control Association, the group that owns the copy-protection technology contained on DVDs, said a company called Kaleidescape is offering products that illegally make copies of DVDs.
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The US movie industry says it is launching legal action to sue people who facilitate illegal movie downloading.
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The U.S. film industry is preparing to sue computer server operators in the United States and Europe who help relay digitized movie files across online file-sharing networks, a source familiar with the movie studios' plans said Tuesday.
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The Motion Picture Association of America yesterday filed its first wave of lawsuits against people it alleges have traded illegally copied movies online, a practice the MPAA says represents
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Japanese electronics giant Toshiba said it was taking legal action against major South Korean microchip maker Hynix in Tokyo and Texas for alleged infringement of Toshiba's semiconductor memory patents.
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The Motion Picture Association of America has filed lawuits against operators of more than 100 servers that use BitTorrent and eDonkey to swap copyighted movie files.