MPAA admits mistake on downloading study
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Hollywood laid much of the blame for illegal movie downloading on college students. Now, it says its math was wrong.
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(InfoWorld) - Defendants convicted in copyright infringement cases in Hong Kong and Japan were sentenced this week, resulting in jail time and a fine, respectively. In Hong Kong, Chan Nai-ming lost an appeal in Tuen Mun Magistrates' Court, after he was convicted in November of illegally distributing copyrighted material using a peer-to-peer network (p-to-p), specifically BitTorrent's file sharing software. Chan began serving his three-month jail sentence on Dec. 12, the Motion Picture Association (MPA) said Wednesday. Chan used BitTorrent software to distribute Hollywood movies, but did not use a BitTorrent-affiliated or operated network to do so. The case was the first of its kind, with a defendant tried and convicted for illegal distribution over aÂ p-to-p network. Originally the pirates' software of choice, BitTorrent isÂ making itself into a legitimate competitorÂ in the online content business. Late last month, the company announced free and fee-based content distribution deals with a number of major Hollywood film and television studios. On Wednesday, the Kyoto District Court found Isamu Kaneko, the developer of the "Winny"Â p-to-p system popular in Japan, guilty of aiding and abetting the infringement of Japan's Copyright Law, the MPA said. Kaneko was fined Â¥1.5 million ($12,832), the MPA said. The MPA estimated that its member companies lost $6.1 billion worldwide in 2005 to illegal reproduction or downloading of movies. In Asia-Pacific, it lost $1.2 billion. The figures are based on what the MPA projects consumers would spend on cinema tickets, DVDs, and other film-viewing opportunities if pirated film products were not available. The MPA is the international arm of the Motion Picture Association of America, the American film industry's lobbying group. It is comprised of Hollywood's largest film studios: Buena Vista International; Paramount Pictures; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; Twentieth Century Fox International; Sony Pictures Releasing International; Warner Brothers International Theatrical Distribution; and Universal International Films.
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Two more distributors of allegedly -- if not obviously -- unlicensed content are facing civil prosecution by the Motion Picture Association of America this afternoon. YouTVpc and Peekvid are the subjects of civil suits in US District Court in Los Angeles, not only for hosting unlicensed content but linking to other sources for unlicensed content as well.
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StreamCast, which owns the Morpheus P2P Network has formally asked the US Supreme Court to reject requests made by the Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) to revisit lower court decisions
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Michael Moeller, who has spoken out on the company's behalf, was among those whose records were improperly accessed, CNET News.com has learned.
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Microsoft Windows users need to watch out for several flaws in non-Microsoft media players.
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A company that sells ripping software for high-definition disks operates through a corporate maze reaching from Ireland to Antigua. Good luck, MPAA. In 27B Stroke 6.
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Hollywood film studios are to sue people who swap pirated copies of films over the internet. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) said the civil suits would seek damages of up to $30,000 (Â£16,300) per film.
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As online piracy reaches epidemic proportions, the Motion Picture Association of America is buckling down on Internet plunder. Controversy erupted on campus in October when AcIS ordered
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Slammed for touting unavailable but unlicensed content
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LOS ANGELES  - The Motion Picture Assn.  of America has filed suit against two Web sites that it claims  are allowing Internet users to view pirated films, many of  which are still in theaters.
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Two men have pleaded guilty to copyright-infringement for distributing music, software and movies over the Internet in the first U.S. convictions for piracy over "peer to peer" networks, the Justice Department said.
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One of Harvard University&#39;s Web sites appeared on Monday to have been hacked, with its contents appearing on the BitTorrent file-sharing network.A compressed 125MB file claiming to be the database for the Web site of Harvard&#39;s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is available via the BitTorrent peer to peer network. The file is listed on The Pirate Bay, a Web site that indexes torrents, or small information files that coordinate the download of content from other users on BitTorrent.The Web site for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences was offline on Monday.A note attached to the torrent claimed the file contained a backup of the site -- including some contacts files and other files associated with Joomla, an open-source content management system -- along with other various bits. It appears to be legitimate.The note&#39;s writer claims the stunt is intended to demonstrate the insecurity of Harvard&#39;s server. The writer also exposed what purport to be usernames and passwords belonging to two of the site&#39;s system administrators.&quot;Stupid people, you don&#39;t use a secure password,&quot; read a note preceding the sensitive information.As of Monday afternoon, the compromised file was being distributed by 11 users -- known in file-sharing terminology as &quot;seeders&quot; -- and was being downloaded by nine &quot;leechers,&quot; or those downloading the files.Harvard&#39;s media office was closed on Monday due to a national U.S. holiday.
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The Great Copyright Debate Interview Convincing internet users who are used to gorging themselves on free movies and music that they shouldn't do it may be like telling Pope Urban VIII the Earth goes round the Sun, but the government claims it's possible - by rejigging the copyright laws.â¦
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"Copyright officials recommended on Thursday that U.S. law be amended so that companies that rely on copyright infringement to make a profit can be held liable for their actions."  Which of course applies only to US companies.  Kazaa should be free and clear.  ...  Should have supplied a link.  I'm a BAD blogger!
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Makes a hash of it As TorrentSpy continues to fight a lawsuit by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), founders of the popular video download site have announced a new filtering system that allows content owners to remove pirated material from the siteâs search results.â¦
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The MPAA estimated that global film piracy costs the US movie industry more than $3 billion annually, but it did not give an estimate for how much online piracy costs the industry.