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With the MegaUpload trial moving at a slow pace and the first update not expected until August, the entire focus is now on the user data. Millions of people had stuff stored with MegaUpload and lost access to it when the site shut down. That data is safe for now, as Carpathia Hosting, a hosting company that MegaUplo... |
10 April 2012
11:22 GMT |
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A few days ago, Google's involvement in a copyright case against cyberlocker Hotfile was revealed. The internet company intervened with an amicus brief explaining the importance of the DMCA safe harbors and the effect the court's decision in this case could have on the web as a whole.
The MPAA, the plainti... |
23 March 2012
11:11 GMT |
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The MegaUpload saga is just beginning, but things will only start to get interesting in a few months at the extradition hearings. In the meantime, some people are still waiting to get their data back, providing that they will.
It's an open question, MegaUpload wants to retrieve the data for its users and for it... |
22 March 2012
09:16 GMT |
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Cyberlockers don't exactly have many friends and in the wake of the MegaUpload attack, many such sites have decided to call it quits. What's more, spurred by the "effectiveness" of the MegaUpload attack, which shut down the site without having to prove any wrong doing, the copyright-dependent industries are... |
20 March 2012
09:27 GMT |
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One of the documentaries getting a lot of media attention these days is The Weinstein Company's “Bully,” a film that aims to expose the chilling “tradition” in US schools and, at the same time, send victims of bullying the message that they're not alone.
However, it can't do t... |
14 March 2012
10:51 GMT |
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An internal Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) fact sheet reveals the organization's plans to go after the so-called rogue cyberlockers which they believe to be extremely profitable for the ones that run them.
According to TorrentFreak, the two-page document entitled “It’s All About the M... |
2 November 2011
09:40 GMT |
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Members of the Anonymous collective have hacked copyprotected.com, a website run by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) to provide information about the copy protection awareness icon.The "Copy Protection Awareness Icon" was launched by the MPAA back in 2005 and according to the association "is used on c... |
15 October 2010
04:11 GMT |
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“Hatchet II,” the sequel to the 2006 gorefest that admittedly redefined the slasher American movie genre, arrived in AMC theaters on October 1, unrated, uncut and “uncompromised” – and was pulled days later, without notice.According to Entertainment Weekly’s PopWatch and director A... |
5 October 2010
04:51 GMT |
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The sustained Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks organized by 4chan members have also affected the IFPI and RIAA websites over the weekend.As we reported on Saturday, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) website was attacked by members of the 4chan image board.The website eventually ended up exp... |
20 September 2010
02:06 GMT |
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Members of the notorious 4chan image board have launched a coordinated a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack against mpaa.org, the website of the Motion Picture Association of America.The attack began at 9:00 PM EST and is still ongoing. It only took eight minutes for the MPAA website to go down.According to ... |
18 September 2010
04:37 GMT |
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The Oscar winning movie “The Hurt Locker” didn't only portray the Iraq war in a dark mood and as a place where death hangs around any corner. One of the subtlest clues shows the story of a US soldier trying to rescue the life of a little boy which he befriended while buying pirated DVDs.That isn'... |
17 May 2010
10:17 GMT |
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It is the right of every company to defend its copyright. And so is the case of Hollywood studios that have been fighting the “good” fight since the Napster scandal first shed light upon the new phenomenon of P2P file sharing. At least in one moment of our lives we face an event in which our copy or legal... |
17 December 2009
02:58 GMT |
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The Israeli police, with help from the ALIS copyright enforcing group, have recently raided a group of Hebrew subtitling fanatics temporarily shutting down their service. Qsubs is the name of a website where movie watchers could download Hebrew subtitles for a wide range of English films. After the raid, three of the... |
14 September 2009
03:33 GMT |
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Late last month, it was confirmed that the Motion Picture Association of America had seen comedian Sacha Baron Cohen’s upcoming film, the mockumentary “Bruno,” and had given it an NC-17 rating in its initial review. Now, Universal is announcing that the film was given a final R by the MPAA, via Twit... |
17 April 2009
11:14 GMT |
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Even though the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)'s film-rating system is designed to provide guidelines to parents and their children as to what the contents of a movie may refer to, a new scientific study finds that teens who are allowed to watch R-rated films are more likely to pick up smoking, or ... |
23 February 2009
04:28 GMT |
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The MPAA anti-piracy battle continues with another pirate caught: Edgar Rubio Corazon, a 26-year-old living in Mexico, has been arrested and sentenced to six years and six months in prison for storing and selling pirated content on the Internet. The man has also received a fine of 428,400 pesos after he was found gui... |
23 May 2008
09:13 GMT |
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MPAA started the battle against pirate websites a few years ago; in the recent few months, the results of its impressive campaign have come to life. After the $110 million fine received by TorrentSpy, the Motion Picture Association of America recorded another win against Cinematube and Showstash, two websites also ac... |
23 May 2008
06:54 GMT |
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Although the court ruled that TorrentSpy must pay a fine of $110 million to MPAA and some of you thought that the lawsuit was finally over, it seems like the dispute will continue because the BitTorrent website decided to appeal the decision. According to AFP, a TorrentSpy lawyer said they would appeal the court ruli... |
9 May 2008
05:34 GMT |
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The fight against movie and software piracy has just recorded another win as the MPA along with the help of other organizations, including here the Malaysian Federation Against Copyright Theft, managed to shut down an illegal DVD facility located in Kajang, Malaysia. According to a press statement signed by the MPAA,... |
9 May 2008
03:35 GMT |
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The battle between The Pirate Bay and MPAA continues with a new dispute: this time, the Motion Pictures Association of America demands damages of no less than $15.4 million due to the fact that the BitTorrent website published pirated copies of several of its movies and allowed Internet users to download them. Accord... |
9 May 2008
02:55 GMT |
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The battle against BitTorrent websites suspected of copyright infringement and distribution of pirated material reached another milestone yesterday when the movie studios, represented by the MPAA, won the lawsuit against TorrentSpy. The legal dispute was started a long time ago when, just like many other BitTorrent s... |
8 May 2008
02:41 GMT |
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The fight against BitTorrent websites which are accused of copyright infringement continues with a new duel, this time between IsoHunt and MPAA(Motion Picture Association of America). IsoHunt was quite reticent in the last few months, probably due to the fact that all people concentrated on The Pirate Bay and on its ... |
5 May 2008
06:19 GMT |
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A few days ago, Simonsen Advokatfirma, a law firm asked the Norwegian ISPs to ban the local file-sharing users, as a move to fight against piracy and illegal software distribution. The request sounded unacceptable but, in the letter they had sent to the ISPs, the lawyers explained that the providers have the obligati... |
11 April 2008
06:41 GMT |
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The dispute between the MPAA and TorrentSpy, a very popular BitTorrent website, has begun a long time ago after TorrentSpy was accused of promoting and enhancing illegal downloads to users in the entire world. Today, it may look like the folks at MPAA have won the battle with their rivals as TorrentSpy announced the ... |
28 March 2008
06:54 GMT |
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The study that the Motion Picture Association of America commissioned in 2005 regarding the domestic losses showed that a stunning 44 percent of those came because of illegal movie downloading done by college students. The MPAA rained fire on the colleges, urging them to limit the bandwidth or to willingly take drast... |
23 January 2008
10:31 GMT |
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Judge Florence-Marie Cooper, of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, terminated the TorrentSpy case, ruling that the BitTorrent search engine infringed the MPAA copyright. In addition, TorrentSpy was criticized for destroying evidence which could be used in court. According to MPAA, the jud... |
19 December 2007
09:10 GMT |
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Two more websites accused of distribution of pirated movies are about to be closed as The Motion Picture Association Of America filed a lawsuit against them. It seems like both Cinematube and Ssupload are allowing the users to view and download BoxOffice movies which are currently in theaters, many of them being crea... |
28 September 2007
04:46 GMT |
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Jack Valenti, the politician, the movie mogul and the star, passed away on Thursday, in his home, after a one-week hospitalization following a stroke. He was 85 but he was still younger and more energetic than most of the stars and businessmen he befriended along the years.Valenti began his career as President Johnso... |
27 April 2007
07:51 GMT |
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