MPAA Does the Unexpected: Targets Downloaders
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In a surprise move this week, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has launched a multi-pronged legal attack on movie downloaders.
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Say what you want about the recording industry&#39;s take-no-prisoners approach to combating online piracy. At least when the music czars go after someone, they target persons suspected of trading
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Paid music and movie download service launches today.
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BitTorrent is a wonderful way to download files with greater reliability than other conventional means, but of course that means that it is used greatly for piracy... apparently.
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Ads and adware have a new way to get on your computer--through files that appear to be music and video.
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A file-sharing program called BitTorrent has become a behemoth, devouring more than a third of the Internet's bandwidth, and Hollywood's copyright cops are taking notice.
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Draconian actions from Hollywood and the recording industry have tech in its crosshairs, says Network World's Mark Gibbs. And if you think their efforts only target so-called pirates, you're just not paying attention.
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Watching "premium content" in Windows Vista requires users to play nice with Microsoft's built-in digital rights controls. In Monkey Bites.
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BitTorrent, a file-sharing program, makes a wealth of legal and illicit content available to those who know where to look, and devours more than a third of the internet's bandwidth.
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Slammed for touting unavailable but unlicensed content
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A video download site that had been exposed as a front for the MPAA to catch those who download copyrighted content, as well as those who may have already downloaded it, has been taken offline.
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High Efficiency codec recommended to network, content providers
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File-sharing is being seen as both a threat and an opportunity by the entertainment industry.
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The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) stepped up its fight against the illegal downloading of copyrighted films over the internet yesterday, with the announcement that its members had filed suit against BitTorrent server operators.
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Following the lead of record companies suing small-time song-swappers, The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is representing several Hollywood movie studios in the first wave of lawsuits against individuals who have downloaded and/or are
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The Motion Picture Association of America said Thursday that it will sue people who download movies from online file-sharing services. Reporter David McGuire discusses the likely impact of the lawsuits with Gigi Sohn, president of Public Knowledge.
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The videocassette in film: an unsettling innovation, a romanticized artifact, an LP in an MP3 world.