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UK sets up DVD piracy task force
News The British film industry and the government have decided to set up a new body charged with tackling movie piracy, it was announced on Monday. The anti-piracy body will be responsible for assessing the extent of DVD and video counterfeiting and...
[August 19, 2003, 11:20]
Box office hits pirated over Web
News The film studios "haven't given a scale to what this piracy is, and therefore they're not taken as seriously in Washington as they might otherwise", he said. The announcement underscores Hollywood's susceptibility to copyright piracy on the Web.
[July 11, 2001, 12:03]
Entertainment execs: Learning to live with piracy
News An upsurge in Internet piracy is forcing the entertainment industry to grapple with an uncertain future, one where copyright protection and control over product distribution could be rendered obsolete.
[August 3, 2000, 13:49]
Think Napster -- only for movies
News Information on DVDs is encrypted to prevent piracy, but that encryption was cracked last year, opening the door for piracy. It has Hollywood, which is already on its heels in the war against piracy, sticking yet another thumb in the digital rights...
[May 12, 2000, 15:27]
Norway piracy case brings activists hope
News Internet and technology activists are hoping the acquittal of Norwegian programmer Jon Johansen in a digital piracy case signals a change in attitudes about copyright in the digital age. Before, courts just rolled right over when companies cried...
[January 9, 2003, 9:02]
Net piracy presents paradox to entertainers
News But behind the piracy brouhaha is the sense among some entertainment industry watchers that a little Net buzz -- even if it comes in the form of an entire first-run film being swiped and shown online -- is actually a good thing.
[August 2, 1999, 11:42]
Hollywood's lead lobbyist steps back from limelight
News Besides the issue of copyright and piracy, how do you see the technology world and -- as you say -- the storytelling world drawing together? Q: How stable is the movie business, as you leave, with respect to piracy and technology?
[June 23, 2004, 10:40]
Movielink: Bring on the experts
News Movielink is ahead of the game in that it already owns the rights to deliver the film catalog of five of Hollywood's biggest studios, shirking general sentiment that the copyright holders are reticent to open their content to online distribution...
[July 11, 2002, 8:29]
Film-swappers face three years' jail
News MPAA spokesman Rich Taylor said "this legislation will go a long way toward targeting one of the most serious contributors to piracy right now, which is the practice of camcording motion pictures. Piracy for too long has been high-reward and low...
[November 13, 2003, 7:55]
Making 1GB downloads easier to swallow
News The company also can disable files that contain pirated copyright material and can kick off repeat offenders of piracy laws. The company doesn't actively look for potential piracy, but removes files when notified.
[June 2, 2006, 15:15]
Harry Potter at the mercy of pirates
News Although some studios may be willing to experiment with anti-piracy methods, it's unlikely that the "Harry Potter" release signals a softening in Hollywood's stance toward analogue copying. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," raising new...
[June 21, 2002, 10:41]
Turning the Tide: Why new strategies are urgently needed to counter the surge in online video piracy
White Papers Now that millions of ordinary, non-geeky families are routinely downloading TV shows and movies without a second thought, digital piracy has clearly gone mainstream. But their changing viewing habits are forcing every film and television company on...
[October 18, 2006, 1:00]
Survey: One in four has downloaded an illegal film
Talkback The piracy threat does not come from the average home user downloading a movie. Whomever at the MPAA made the claim that 1 in 4 people on the internet have downloaded a movie clearly had no understanding of the piracy problem.
[July 9, 2004, 11:19]
UK man threatened with BitTorrent lawsuit
Talkback If the Film and Music industry want to reduce the piracy further, they need to reduce the cost of the goods to the customer. The record/film company's still make a profit, the artist still gets paid and the retailer makes their money & of course...
[March 21, 2005, 11:05]
.Net and XP hit by patent suit
News Microsoft has been making aggressive efforts to attract the interest of the film and music industries by embedding anti-piracy technology in its media player and Windows operating system. Microsoft and InterTrust have been embroiled since April in...
[October 19, 2001, 9:31]
Net movies: Ready for prime time?
News By offering a legal service, Movielink could also thwart online piracy of movies and help Hollywood evade "Napsterisation" -- that is, tumult like that which file-swapping site Napster let loose in the music business.
[November 4, 2002, 14:39]
BitTorrent creator teams up with Hollywood
News In an event held at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, Cohen and executives from the Motion Picture Association of America said they were united in thwarting piracy. As such, we are pleased to work with the film industry to remove...
[November 23, 2005, 8:10]
Studios sue defunct $1 movie site
News The cat-and-mouse saga of Film88 provides a daunting window into the difficulties faced by movie studios, record labels and other copyright owners as Internet piracy takes on an increasingly international flavour.
[July 11, 2002, 7:38]
UK government minister joins pirate raids
News Piracy is theft, plain and simple. But if we are to truly tackle piracy, the government and industry must work together to get across to the consumer that each time they buy pirate copies of CDs, DVDs, computer games and videos they are putting a...
[December 4, 2002, 16:42]
High tech is the latest blockbuster
News Film industry executives taking part in another panel spoke in glowing terms of the new digital film editing tools that let them perform previously unimagined feats of technical wizardry, but said they're extremely wary of the potential for online...
[April 27, 1999, 8:25]
