Movie Studios Target Peer-to-Peer Networks with Suit
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The MPAA is arguing not that the P2P networks are at fault, but that the operators of the servers are because they know what is stored on them.
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By byron kho. A consortium of movie and record companies joined forces on Friday to request that the US Supreme Court take another look at peer-to-peer file-sharing programs.
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Hollywood studios are going into business with one of their biggest tormentors: the peer-to-peer pioneer BitTorrent.
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The movie industry announced yesterday it will file its first wave of lawsuits later this month against those it alleges are illegally sharing copyrighted films on the Internet, joining the music industry in its fight against piracy.
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The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is following the Recording Industry Association of Americaâs (RIAA) footsteps by filing lawsuits against BitTorrent clients.
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Even as the RIAA continues to sue downloaders of illegal music over file-sharing networks, some music companies are finally finding ways to use P2P to their advantage.
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The Motion Picture Association of America has gone on the offensive in its battle against piracy and peer-to-peer sharing of movies, and has launched more than 200 civil suits against users it identifies as being the worst offenders.
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Movie and record industry executives want Americaâs highest court to review a ruling legitimizing peer-to-peer software, but file-sharing networks wonât give up the fight.
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The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has announced that it has begun filing lawsuits against people who use peer-to-peer (P2P) software to trade movie files without permission over the internet.
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Companies will offer a service that authenticates movies, music, and games.
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The Motion Picture Association of America is in talks with the Internet2 research consortium, hoping both to test next-generation video delivery projects and to monitor peer-to-peer piracy on the ultrahigh-speed network.
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The file-sharing company swallows up one of its rivals in a bid to ease distribution of video and movies to cable boxes and mobile devices. Can the digital dream of peer-to-peer television become a reality? Analysis by Scott Gilbertson.
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The makers of the BitTorrent file-sharing software set up a legal movie and music download service.
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BitTorrent, the company that maintains the popular file-sharing system of the same name, announced several deals on Wednesday with major movie studios and content producers, moving its service still closer to mainstream acceptance.
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The US film industry is preparing to sue server operators in the United States and Europe that help relay movie files across file-sharing networks, a source familiar with the movie studios&#39; plans said.
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In order to thwart the growth of this network, the MPAA will be pursuing BitTorrent indexing servers known as trackers. While trackers function somewhat differently than traditional indexing servers found
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Top Hollywood studios have launched a wave of court cases against internet users who illegally download film files. The Motion Picture Association of America, which acts as the representative of major film