Watchdog group flags top pirated films on Google Video
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Blog: The National Legal and Policy Center is after Google to clean up copyright infringement on its video sites.
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Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), formed by major Hollywood movie studios, said Thursday it seeks to sue computer users suspected of illegally distributing movies over the Internet.
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A broad group of companies and associations covering most of the Japanese entertainment industry is calling on YouTube to be more proactive in policing its Web site for copyrighted material.
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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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Blog: One of Google's units removes bootleg versions of documentary but copy remains at Google Video
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Online video site YouTube is to test a new video fingerprinting technology to address copyright concerns.
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The Motion Picture Association of America filed an undisclosed number of lawsuits Tuesday throughout the country against individuals it believes illegally downloaded
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Blog: Watchdog group ranks Google among the worst top Internet sites for privacy, but Google says report is based on inaccuracies.
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Technology News, 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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Blog: Advocacy group intends to file court papers in support of TorrentSpy, accused by the movie industry of encouraging illegal file sharing.
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A group composed of the RIAA, MPAA, BSA and other groups representing corporate intellectual-property interests are pressing the U.S. government to keep China and Russia at the top of a government watchlist for violations.
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Google Inc., racing to head off a  media industry backlash over its video Web site YouTube, will  soon offer anti-piracy technologies to help all copyright  holders thwart unauthorized video sharing, its chief executive  said on Wednesday.
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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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Google is hosting potentially copyrighted videos, including recent full-length movies and concerts as well as broadcast and cable TV programs on Google Video, a nonprofit group is charging.
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(InfoWorld) - Google is hosting potentially copyrighted videos, including recent full-length movies and concerts as well as broadcast and cable TV programs on Google Video, a nonprofit group is charging. The movies include such new releases as Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Live Free or Die Hard, and Sicko, according to the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), a nonprofit organization in Falls Church, Va., that says it is "focused on ethics and accountability in public life and private business." Earlier this week, the group released a list of what it calls the Top 50 movies, cable programs and music concerts that Google is hosting on Google Video, including Sony Pictures' Hollow Man 2 and several episodes of NBC's The Office. Computerworld was able to download at least one of the movies referred to by the NLPC. Google spokesman Gabriel Stricker said that despite its policies requiring that users own the content they post on Google Video, the only way the company can remove potentially copyright-infringing material is if the copyright holder files a formal complaint with Google under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA) of 1998. In part, the DCMA limits Internet service providers from copyright infringement liability for simply transmitting information over the Internet. Service providers, however, are expected to remove material from users' Web sites that appears to constitute copyright infringement. However, Stricker reiterated that only the legitimate copyright holder can ask Google to remove the material. It was entirely possible, he said, that the copyright holders wanted the content that the NLPC is referring to uploaded to Google Video. But Stricker said Google is working with copyright holders to develop a system that will automatically alert Google to illegally posted content. NLPC Chairman Ken Boehm said Google is hiding behind the DCMA by requiring takedown notices. "Every day we are finding dozens of new movies on Google Video," Boehm said in a statement. "While we [understand] that it's difficult to know for sure whether all of the content is being hosted in violation of copyright laws, it doesn't take a Google mathematician to know that much of this content is being hosted without the copyright owner's knowledge or permission."
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A studioâs marketing team paid âDie Hardâ fans to repost on YouTube a parody video that used pirated studio content.
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Reporters Without Borders, an international media watchdog organization, is accusing Google of being complicit in China&#39;s censorship of Google News sites.