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MPAA launches software snooping tool
News The software, designed to scan hard disks for media and peer-to-peer files, will soon be freely available from the MPAA. However, an MPAA representative said suits will be brought across the United States and that this will be just the first of...
[November 17, 2004, 12:50]
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]
RealNetworks files antitrust motion against MPAA
News An MPAA representative was not immediately available and a Real spokesman declined to comment. RealNetworks has accused the major film studios of antitrust violations in documents filed on Wednesday with a federal court.
[May 14, 2009, 11:27]
Linux blunder Down Under could land MPAA in court
Talkback just goes to show how "intelligent" these MPAA monkeys are.you have a file that has the same name as a movie, take it down or else! i for one would like to see the mpaa eat it's own words.bash:#> rm /mpaa
[September 21, 2004, 15:40]
Linux blunder Down Under could land MPAA in court
News What seems to be an embarrassing blunder by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) in its hunt for online pirates has prompted Linux Australia to contact its legal representatives and warn of a possible breach of Australian law.
[September 20, 2004, 9:40]
MPAA launches software snooping tool
Talkback It's the ridiculously high-priced beaurocrats and executives in the MPAA, and RIAA that keep the prices of everything out of the reach of average people. Hmmm. A tool that helps look for coyright ingringing files.
[November 17, 2004, 17:36]
MPAA launches software snooping tool
Talkback GROW UP MPAA! This is bullshit, they should know by now that all they are doing is wasting more money trying to catch people that are smarter than they are. Sure, they might catch a few kids and maybe an adult or two here and there, but the...
[November 17, 2004, 14:25]
Linux blunder Down Under could land MPAA in court
Talkback /me thinks there's a new source for project/product names .
[September 21, 2004, 16:19]
Linux blunder Down Under could land MPAA in court
Talkback You'd think these mooks would download the file as EVIDENCE of the infringements. Instead of which, they just go by stupid keyword matches without confirming them. It happened here to someone who was distributing private (skating) videos.
[September 21, 2004, 9:19]
MPAA launches software snooping tool
Talkback What about the billions of dollars that is being lost in China from their copying? No one likes to talk about that. Let's just sue our client base! I do agree something needs to be done, but is this the only option?
[November 17, 2004, 13:39]
MPAA launches software snooping tool
Talkback The 9th Circuit court rules that bloggers and online news sites do not get the same 1st amendment rights as the traditional offline press does. Quotes: Fosbinder criticized the panel for failing to “even mention” the First Amendment and argued that...
[December 2, 2004, 20:57]
The "MediaMafia" of RIAA, MPAA and their subsidiaries . .
Talkback They need to have their copyrights temporarily suspended. They basically works a big "protection racket". When you think of the beginning of copyrights all this is absurd. In the beginning copyrights were granted by the public (via governments) to...
[July 21, 2009, 9:15]
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 MPAA and the movie studios, which drive groups like FACT, have reduced the amount of funding for...
[July 9, 2004, 11:19]
UK file-swappers could face jail under new law
Talkback Soon the mpaa will have their way and everyone will be in jail and then they will bitch about lost revenew it seems rather pointless to pop some blue collar dude from BFE and fine him it would seem more resonable to lower the price of a dvd or a...
[January 17, 2005, 3:57]
P2P booming as users swap large files
Talkback THE MPAA says that when we buy Pirate DVD'd we are helping the terroist movement. Hence I pay no Profits to MPAA and it's partners who pay tax to Bush to go kill Irag's.seems I am helping STOP TERROR ROLL ON BITTORRENT.
[July 14, 2004, 18:04]
Entertainment industry joins Internet2
News The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) will join the Internet2 network coalition, Internet2 officials announced Friday. Internet2 provides the MPAA and the RIAA with unique access...
[September 12, 2005, 10:45]
Hollywood heads up anti-piracy charge
News The MPAA's other two proposals likely will seek to limit piracy by outlawing future components that receive digital TV broadcasts unless they follow anti-copying standards. On Monday, a lawyer for the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA...
[July 23, 2002, 8:14]
Movie industry targets Gnutella users
News The MPAA said the crackdown is the result of a month-long investigation by Ranger Online, a company it hired to scour the Web and find cases of copyright infringement. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA ) has sent hundreds of letters...
[April 18, 2001, 7:48]
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]
Last picture show? Movie site attacked
News A source inside the organisation who asked not to be identified told MSNBC that the MPAA is currently "experiencing problems with our public Web site, and we suspect a Denial-of-Service attack. The source at the MPAA would not comment on how long...
[April 14, 2000, 9:05]
