Movie Studios Start Suing Web File Swappers
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Hollywood film studios filed suit  against online video file swappers in federal courts across the  United States on Tuesday, making good on a promise to punish  computer users they claim are violating copyright laws.
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Taking a page from the recording industry&#39;s playbook, major Hollywood movie studios on Tuesday filed their first wave of lawsuits against people who shared free copies of movies over the Internet.
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Hollywood movie studios on Tuesday sued scores of operators of computer servers that help relay digital movie files across online file-sharing networks.
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The movie industry strikes out at file-sharing networks with another round of lawsuits in the US.
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The Motion Picture Association of America this week started an aggressive legal campaign against the eDonkey, BitTorrent, and DirectConnect file swapping services, filing suit against individuals operating servers for the peer-to-peer file swapping
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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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The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) launched its initiative to file lawsuits against online movie traders on Tuesday.
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Hollywood film studios have filed their first wave of lawsuits against people in the US who trade pirated films over the internet.
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LOS ANGELES -- Hollywood studios say they will file hundreds of lawsuits later this month against individuals who swap pirated copies of movies over the Internet.
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The Motion Picture Association of America will begin suing online file traders this month, pursuing a strategy similar to one employed by the recording industry during the past year.
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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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A trade group representing seven major movie studios filed a first wave of lawsuits against individuals they say are offering pirated copies of films using Internet-based peer-to-peer file-sharing programs.
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Los Angeles - A trade group representing seven major movie studios filed a first wave of lawsuits against individuals they say are offering pirated copies of films using peer-to-peer file-sharing programs.
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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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Hollywood film studios file their first wave of lawsuits against people in the US who trade pirated films online.
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The Motion Picture Association of  America said on Wednesday it has sued a company that sells  Internet downloads of current movies like "I, Robot" and  "Spider-Man 2" without permission.
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The Motion Picture Association of America has begun filing lawsuits nationwide against people who swap illegally copied movies over the Internet via file-sharing applications such as KaZaA, eDonkey and Grokster.