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Movie studios sue DVD software firms
News Hollywood studios Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox sued a handful of small software companies on Wednesday, alleging that their distribution of DVD-copying software violates copyright law. The studios filed suit against Tritton Technologies...
[September 18, 2003, 9:55]
Entertainment industry appeals file-swap ruling
News Record labels and movie studios said on Tuesday that they have appealed an April federal court ruling that held for the first time that some file-swapping software was legal. Starting with a ruling against Napster, all previous court rulings had...
[August 20, 2003, 12:10]
File-trading future in hands of court
News Attorneys for the record industry and the movie studios sparred with lawyers for file-swapping services Morpheus and Grokster in US federal court on Monday, as each side sought a quick resolution to a pending copyright suit against the popular...
[December 3, 2002, 13:33]
Studios sue defunct $1 movie site
News The movie studios' trade association filed suit Tuesday against Film88.com, a would-be Internet video Web site that has allegedly popped up in several incarnations around the world. We have proposed to major studios in Hollywood to pay 30 percent...
[July 11, 2002, 7:38]
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. We see people downloading like crazy," said Mark Ishikawa, chief executive of BayTSP, a...
[May 27, 2003, 11:43]
File-swapping lawsuits put on hold
News A California judge has slowed Hollywood's pursuit of file-swappers, saying the movie studios have improperly bundled too many separate cases together. The order was praised by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an online civil liberties group that...
[November 25, 2004, 13:05]
Is Scour 'Napster with movies'?
News That's the message that 30 major media companies -- including movie studios, record companies and music publishers -- are sending to multimedia search portal Scour. Scour is Napster with movies," said Jack Valenti, the chairman and the CEO of the...
[July 24, 2000, 8:56]
Supreme Court rules against file swapping
News The US Supreme Court handed movie studios and record labels a sweeping victory against file-swapping, ruling on Monday that peer-to-peer companies such as Grokster could be held responsible for the copyright piracy on their networks.
[June 27, 2005, 20:20]
Kazaa firm banned from suing record labels
News Sharman Networks, the company behind the popular Kazaa file-swapping software, cannot pursue a suit accusing record labels and movie studios of antitrust violations, a federal judge has ruled. Movie studios and record labels filed a lawsuit...
[July 8, 2003, 14:56]
Hollywood targets DVD-copying upstart
News On Thursday, seven major movie studios filed a countersuit in federal court in San Francisco, claiming that 321 Studios is violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by selling its DVD Copy Plus and DVD-Xcopy programs.
[December 23, 2002, 8:51]
Court to decide Kazaa's US liability
News A Los Angeles federal judge will hear arguments Monday as to whether record companies and movie studios can sue the parent company of Kazaa, the most popular online file-swapping service, in the United States.
[November 25, 2002, 8:29]
MovieLink expected to use MPEG-4
News MovieLink, a joint venture among five major movie studios, is expected to launch its Internet video-on-demand service later this year using MPEG-4 technology, a studio executive familiar with the plans said on Monday.
[April 9, 2002, 11:15]
Kazaa, Morpheus conceding defeat
News A legal fight that has pitted file-swapping software companies Kazaa and StreamCast Networks against big record labels and movie studios is collapsing as the small companies run out of funds. The differences between Kazaa's and Napster's...
[May 23, 2002, 9:19]
Hollywood heads to court over movie-swapping
News California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, applauded the movie studios' litigation strategy. BayTSP, a company that monitors peer-to-peer networks for movie studios and record labels, said that it sees tens of thousands of separate...
[November 5, 2004, 7:48]
Hollywood named in on-demand conspiracy suit
News Digital on-demand movie service Intertainer Tuesday said it filed an antitrust lawsuit against three major Hollywood studios alleging conspiracy and price-fixing. Intertainer must strike licensing agreements with the studios to offer popular movie...
[September 25, 2002, 6:27]
Judge rules file-sharing tools are legal
News A federal judge in Los Angeles has handed a stunning court victory to file-swapping services Streamcast Networks and Grokster, dismissing much of the record industry and movie studios' lawsuit against the two companies.
[April 28, 2003, 7:56]
Film studios create new standards body
News The studios said they aim to improve the digital movie experience through various initiatives, including adopting open technical standards that would help make competing digital formats compatible and interoperable.
[April 3, 2002, 15:32]
Hollywood Net horror gets sequel
News A video-on-demand site that was shut down earlier this year with the help of Hollywood has seemingly sprouted a new head in Iran, underscoring vexing problems of Internet copyright enforcement for movie studios.
[June 6, 2002, 11:32]
Winning over the file sharers
News Cdigix, the lone company wholly focused on this business, is now expanding into video services, hoping that movie studios see the same benefits as record labels in extending an olive branch to file-swapping students.
[April 6, 2005, 14:15]
New Kazaa likely to raise labels' ire
News Sharman's management, which still faces lawsuits by the big record labels and movie studios, had little to say beyond that the new features should make file swapping easier. Sharman, along with Streamcast Networks and Grokster, is scheduled to meet...
[September 23, 2002, 7:51]
