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New P2P tools mean quicker downloads
News A new generation of peer-to-peer tools is gaining traction on the Internet, spelling tougher times ahead for movie studios' attempts to quell online piracy. The BitTorrent technology isn't intended for movie piracy.
[May 27, 2003, 11:43]
Survey: One in four has downloaded an illegal film
Talkback 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. The piracy threat does not come from the average home user downloading a movie.
[July 9, 2004, 11:19]
Movie industry targets Gnutella users
News The movie industry is training its legal guns on the Gnutella file-sharing system in its latest efforts to combat piracy. What we're trying to do is educate the population about what is appropriate, both from an ethical standpoint and from a legal...
[April 18, 2001, 7:48]
File-trading pressure mounts on ISPs
News Driven by a combination of high-profile summer movie releases and a growth in the business of independent piracy hunters, these requests are putting service providers in an awkward position. ISPs say this kind of announcement, before the release of...
[July 26, 2001, 11:19]
New technology to block camcorder pirates
News The company predicted that its efforts could cut movie piracy by 50 percent. The movie and music industries have sought for years to thwart piracy by developing anti-copying technology, an effort that has been redoubled with the emergence of...
[October 10, 2002, 16:41]
Box office hits pirated over Web
News MediaForce's list "demonstrates that online movie piracy is a very real threat to the movie production industry, especially when three of our Top 10 are current, first-run production movies", said Aaron Fessler, chief executive of the company.
[July 11, 2001, 12:03]
Hollywood heads to court over movie-swapping
News Even more than with the recording industry, though, big bucks are at stake in movie piracy. We cannot let illegal movie piracy continue or it will cripple this important industry and seriously hurt California's economy.
[November 5, 2004, 7:48]
Inside the online movie underground
News I don't see how pricing and piracy can be put in the same sentence. Piracy is theft, pure and simple," said Emily Kutner, an anti-piracy spokeswoman for the Motion Picture Association of America. There are no file-sharing Web sites that could be...
[May 15, 2000, 16:19]
Harry Potter at the mercy of pirates
News Still, electronics manufacturers continue to cooperate with movie studios to create copy controls aimed at thwarting online video piracy. Although some studios may be willing to experiment with anti-piracy methods, it's unlikely that the "Harry...
[June 21, 2002, 10:41]
Email is key to file-swap fight
News The record labels and movie studios are trying to narrow the case, seeking to prove that the companies involved deliberately built their business to take advantage of widespread piracy. The groups draw from the file-swapping companies' internal...
[September 13, 2002, 11:02]
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]
The record labels' new target: users
News The move toward suing individuals, first reported in The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, would mark a substantial deviation from the path that record labels and movie studios have previously taken in their battles against online piracy.
[July 4, 2002, 8:12]
Free speech victory for DVD crackers
News Hollywood studios have contended that software that can break through their anti-piracy techniques is simply a tool and does not warrant free-speech protections. In this case, the DVD Copyright Control Association, an industry group aimed at...
[November 2, 2001, 10:12]
Think Napster -- only for movies
News Already, Jacobson said, traditional forms of piracy cost the industry $2.5 billion. Enter DivX, which came into use in the video piracy arena sometime in February. It has Hollywood, which is already on its heels in the war against piracy, sticking...
[May 12, 2000, 15:27]
Hollywood's lead lobbyist steps back from limelight
News Q: How stable is the movie business, as you leave, with respect to piracy and technology? Not just piracy issues, but access issues -- all sorts of tax and discriminatory issues -- and so we have to deal with that.
[June 23, 2004, 10:40]
Malaysian minister warns that high CD prices fuel piracy
News Anti-piracy groups in Malaysia are upset at comments made by a politician blaming piracy on the recording industry itself, through its policy of charging high prices for CDs and DVDs. However, he believes the minister's views are not widespread...
[June 3, 2003, 9:23]
New technology to help squelch music piracy
News A group of technology companies is creating a set of industry standards that could help put digital piracy protections directly into disk drives as soon as this summer. Moving to the hardware level would be a step in the direction of creating a...
[December 28, 2000, 11:16]
The de-Napsterisation of online video
News Couple that with the popularity of TiVo digital video recorders and even software for recording video on the PC, as well as easy-to-rip DVDs, and the technology is there for a vast amount of video piracy.
[March 14, 2006, 14:50]
Hollywood's war on open source: Don't fence me in
News Therefore, the movie industry says it needs strong laws in order to prevent piracy -- laws such as the DMCA. What's more, DVD piracy rings throughout Asia can make counterfeit DVDs without ever cracking CSS.
[February 28, 2000, 9:17]
Hollywood chases down campus pirates
News We are concerned that an increasing and significant number of students are using university networks to engage in online piracy of copyrighted creative works," the trade groups wrote in a letter sent to universities this week.
[October 11, 2002, 7:54]
