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MPAA launches software snooping tool
News The Motion Picture Association of America said on Tuesday that it has filed an unspecified number of lawsuits against people who trade copyrighted movies online, following through on plans announced earlier in the month.
[November 17, 2004, 12:50]
Hollywood heads up anti-piracy charge
News On Monday, a lawyer for the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) said to expect new bills soon to assail illicit peer-to-peer file trading and curtail the piracy of digital TV broadcasts. No one in the motion picture industry has any...
[July 23, 2002, 8:14]
Hollywood heads to court over movie-swapping
News Illegal movie trafficking represents the greatest threat to the economic basis of moviemaking in its 110-year history," Dan Glickman, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, said in a statement released on Thursday after a press...
[November 5, 2004, 7:48]
Bill lets Hollywood hack your PC
News The legislation would immunise groups such as the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America from all state and federal laws if they disable, block or otherwise impair a "publicly accessible peer-to...
[July 25, 2002, 8:12]
Techies wage war on copyright cartels
News Last December, the Motion Picture Association of America sued the creators of a program that broke the encryption on digital video discs in order to create an unlicenced player of DVDs. Eight major Hollywood studios, the Motion Picture Association...
[May 19, 2000, 15:06]
Moviemakers hit by Torrent hacker claim
News The Motion Picture Association of America hired a hacker to steal information from a company it has accused of helping copyright violators, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday. The lawsuit filed in US District Court in California by Torrentspy...
[May 25, 2006, 9:45]
Court rules against TorrentSpy in hacking case
News But while a US district judge found that the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) had not violated the federal Wiretap Act, as TorrentSpy's attorneys had argued, the MPAA acknowledged in court records that it paid $15,000 (£7,459) to...
[August 29, 2007, 11:05]
Oxford University targeted by MPAA
News Oxford University has been forced to take a student's Web page offline following threats of legal action by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). The Web page, which contains information about the DeCSS DVD application for Linux, was...
[May 19, 2000, 16:03]
Is Scour 'Napster with movies'?
News Scour is Napster with movies," said Jack Valenti, the chairman and the CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, the association representing seven movie studios in the case. Next week, the Recording Industry Association of America...
[July 24, 2000, 8:56]
Web war rages over DVD-cracking site
News In a move that free-speech activists hope will be trendsetting, Internet service provider Verio is standing up to the movie industry by refusing to remove a Web site the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) says is illegal.
[January 25, 2001, 9:03]
Movie industry targets Gnutella users
News The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA ) has sent hundreds of letters to major Internet service providers and universities, warning them that some people on their networks are violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by...
[April 18, 2001, 7:48]
Aimster hit with file-swap suit
News The Motion Picture Association of America was expected to file its own separate suit later. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which has previously sued file-trading companies Napster and Scour on similar issues, sent a warning...
[May 25, 2001, 10:35]
Alleged DeCSS hacker faces two years
News But DeCSS can also be used in the piracy of DVDs, and this enraged the movie studios that belong to the Motion Picture Association of America. The US DVD Copy Control Association and the Norwegian Motion Picture Association lobbied for the...
[December 10, 2002, 7:57]
Judge: Kazaa can be sued in US
News The Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America applauded the decision in a joint statement. The company had filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing it was not bound by US laws since it did not...
[January 13, 2003, 8:00]
Illegal 'Matrix' sequel available on P2P
News Tom Temple, director of worldwide Internet enforcement for the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), said he had no information indicating that the movie had been released early online. The MPAA, in tandem with the Recording Industry...
[May 15, 2003, 10:22]
Hollywood's lead lobbyist steps back from limelight
News ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com spoke with Valenti recently about the changing relationship between Hollywood and technology, and about his own longtime role at the Motion Picture Association of America.
[June 23, 2004, 10:40]
Napster marches back to court
News Just last week, the RIAA joined the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) in suing Scour, claiming the company's service -- which lets users trade MP3, video and other files -- contributes to copyright infringement.
[July 25, 2000, 13:39]
Torvalds lambastes DVD lawsuits
News Another suit brought by the Motion Picture Association of America charges three Web sites with violating trade secret statutes by posting the DeCSS program. The suit against Johansen, brought by the Motion Picture Association, is not the first.
[February 2, 2000, 17:04]
White House enters the Napster fray
News On Friday, a group including the National Basketball Association and the Motion Picture Association of America submitted a document in support of the recording industry. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) sued Napster in December...
[September 11, 2000, 7:57]
Court upholds ban on DVD-cracking code
News The case stems from a suit filed in January 2000 against 2600 by the Motion Picture Association of America. This is a terrific victory for content owners and the motion picture studios," said Chuck Sims, an attorney with Proskauer Rose, which...
[November 29, 2001, 9:06]
