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Linking to movies leads to $4 million in fines

Tags: 60, mpaa, movies, linking on 2008-05-25 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Pirate Bay: MPAA's $15.4 million damage claim a fabrication

The MPAA wants popular BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay to hand over $15.4 million in damages for allegedly facilitating copyright infringement, but The Pirate Bay's fearless captain Peter Sunde thinks that the movie industry's case doesn't have a peg leg to stand on.

Tags: 58, thepiratebay, bittorrent, sweden, mpaa on 2008-05-09 -All Annotations (0) -About

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TorrentSpy Won't Pay $111 Million Court Order, Lawyer Says | Threat Level from Wired.com

A day after a U.S. judge dinged TorrentSpy with one of the largest fines in copyright history, the lawyer for the torrent-tracking search engine said Thursday the $111 million judgment won't get paid.

Tags: 58, torrentspy, judgment, mpaa on 2008-05-09 -All Annotations (0) -About

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isoHunt tells judge it's just another search engine

In 2006, the motion picture industry trade group filed copyright infringement lawsuits against a number of BitTorrent sites, including TorrentSpy and isoHunt. TorrentSpy lost, thanks to its admins' willful destruction of evidence, but isoHunt is fighting back. A recent filing in the case opposes the MPAA's motion for summary judgment, arguing that isoHunt is just another search engine.

Tags: 58, isohunt, bittorrent, mpaa on 2008-05-08 -All Annotations (0) -About

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TorrentSpy Slapped with $110 Million Judgement | TorrentFreak

TorrentSpy has been ordered to pay a $110 million fine by a federal judge in Los Angeles. The BitTorrent site was found guilty on the charges of copyright infringement of several movie studios represented by the MPAA.

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Studios change rules of distribution - Entertainment News, Weekly Music and Technology, Media - Variety

Determined to give consumers as many options as possible, studios are distributing pics over as broad an array of platforms as possible, many of them simultaneously. In the digital age, the need for ubiquity seems to trump piracy fears.

Tags: 58, piracy, mpaa, movies on 2008-05-03 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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MPAA Silently Drops Case Against BitTorrent Site | TorrentFreak

In 2005, DVDr-core was the first BitTorrent site that was targeted by the MPAA outside the US. A classic story: Man runs site, man gets sued over site, nothing more is ever heard. Whilst in most cases, this means that the defendant bowed to pressure, paid an out of court settlement, and promised not to do it again, that is not the case here.

Tags: 57, bittorrent, mpaa, europe on 2008-05-03 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Andersen Vs. The Association: For Once, The Tide Turns Right

The RIAA’s intent from the very start of its $5k-a-person tour of terror is not to halt piracy, per se. They understand that such activity will never be completely stopped. Rather, it’s about reclaiming control, and bringing the digital space around to fit the legal model they themselves continue to hammer forward. No changes necessary for copyright law as it exists

Tags: 57, riaa, mpaa, lawsuits, anderson on 2008-04-28 -All Annotations (0) -About

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MPAA Secretly Tells Court Why BitTorrent Tracking Sites Violate Copyrights -- UPDATE | Threat Level from Wired.com

The answer to the question of whether BitTorrent tracking sites are legal in the United States depends on who is asked. Now it seems the Motion Picture Association of America is prohibited to say publicly why the movie industry believes the answer is "no."

Tags: 55, mpaa, bittorrent, piracy on 2008-04-19 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Big Content in worldwide "whisper campaign" against Fair Use

The counter-reformation in question takes the form of a "whispering campaign" in which ministries in different countries are told that plans to expand fair use rights might well run afoul of the Berne Convention's "three-step test." The Convention, which goes back to the late 1800s, was one of the earliest international copyright treaties and is now administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

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