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Movie Subtitling Crew Faces Serious Charges

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

Sacha Baron Cohen’s ‘Bruno’ Gets R Rating

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

'R'-Rated Movies Prompt More Teen Smoking

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

Man Jailed for Selling Pirate Movies Online

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

Pirate Websites Fined $4 Million

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

TorrentSpy to Appeal the $110M Fine for Copyright Infringement

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

Illegal DVD Factory Found in Malaysia

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

The Pirate Bay Asked to Pay $15M for Pirated Movies

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

TorrentSpy Fined $110 Millions for Copyright Infringement

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

IsoHunt: "No, We Do Not Infringe Copyright!"

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

ISPs To MPAA: 'Go Away!' File Sharers Excited

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

TorrentSpy Permanently Shut Down!

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

Downloading Study Proved Wrong!

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

TorrentSpy Loses Legal Dispute against MPAA

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

Two More Piracy Websites to Be Shut Down

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

MPAA Lobbyist Valenti Is Dead

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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