AT&T in talks with Hollywood studios against piracy
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AT&T Inc. is in talks with Viacom Inc.  and Hollywood studios to fight online piracy as the phone  company seeks to work more closely with media companies to  expand into video entertainment.
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BitTorrent Inc., makers of a technology often used to trade pirated copies of Hollywood movies, is launching a Web site that will sell downloads of films and TV shows licensed from the studios
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The motion picture and recording industries will get a US Supreme Court hearing in their bid to block the ``catastrophic, multibillion-dollar harm&#39;&#39; they say is caused by file-sharing software used to pirate movies and songs.
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The major Hollywood movie studios today sued hundreds of people suspected of trading illegally copied movies on the Internet, a move closely modeled on the recording industry&#39;s aggressive legal campaign to stamp out music piracy.
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The major Hollywood studios today said they are escalating their fight against online piracy by pursuing civil and criminal legal actions against the operators of computer servers that help transmit illegally copied movie files across the Internet.
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. (antiTainment) The film industry seems to be following the example of the music business in battling online piracy. On Thursday, Dan Glickman, president and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America
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The European Union's antitrust regulator has asked Hollywood studios to turn over information about their negotiations with the developers of high-definition DVD formats, giving them until the end of this week to respond.
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Taking a cue from recording companies, Hollywood movie studios are preparing to file copyright infringement lawsuits against computer users they say are illegally distributing movies online, a source familiar with the studios&#39; plans said Wednesday.
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All the major studios are said to be either on board or in active talks with the retailer, which will begin testing a video download service on its Web site.
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During a seminar at the Digital Hollywood conference in Los Angeles this morning, AT&T Senior Vice President James Cicconi disclosed that his company began meeting with Viacom last week to discuss the deployment of technology that somehow will combat the spread of piracy over its digital networks.
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Apple Inc. is planning to launch an online movie rental service by fall, although the company is meeting resistance from some Hollywood studios concerned about piracy, people familiar with the plan told The Associated Press on Monday.
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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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Movie studios and the Motion  Picture Association of America said on Thursday they would sue  individuals suspected of illegally distributing movies over the  Internet.
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LOS ANGELES A source says Hollywood studios are preparing to file copyright infringement lawsuits against people they say are illegally sharing movies online.
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The battle for video rental company Hollywood Entertainment Corp. heated up Tuesday as Blockbuster Inc. threatened to make a hostile $1 billion bid to buy its smaller rival
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Hollywood movie studios on Tuesday stepped up their fight against internet piracy by pursuing lawsuits against people in the US and Europe who operate servers that relay
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US mobile phone giant AT&T says it will give its customers direct access to digital music service Napster.