p2pnet - rss feed: Hollywood sues file sharers
p2pnet.net News:- “Check out the clever, engaging and fun activities in the copyright awareness curricullum of Junior Achievement, Inc, and especially all the special activity plans, interactive lessons, informative materials and games in the piracy education section called What’s the Diff? Another great, easy-to-understand place for you and your students to explore the world of copyright is copyrightkids.org.”
So says one of the link pages on Hollywood’s new sue ‘em all war site, launched today in a bid to staunch the flow of feature movies onto, and consequent downloads from, the p2p file sharing networks.
Because it’s started. An unspecified number of lawsuits have been filed across the US by the MPAA on behalf of its owners, Disney, Warner Bros, MGM, Universal, Fox, Paramount and Sony.
This image map with red warts all over it is designed to strike terror into the hearts of people who download movie files from the p2pnetworks.
It’s on the Respect Copyrights web page put up by the Big Seven.
Click one of the warts and it takes you to a page with a movie-industry message such as the one in the intro, or that downloading movies expose your computer to all kinds of nasties - and not just the movies themselves.
The site will also soon feature a handy little tool so parents can act as movie industry enforcers.
It will, “identify and delete all file-sharing programs and illegally copied movie and music files on their computers,” says the Washington Post. “The software will not report evidence of illegal content back to the studios, the association said. The tool will be made available at www.respectcopyrights.org, a site run by the MPAA.
“The software was developed by DtecNet Software, a Copenhagen, Denmark-based software company. Its board of directors includes Chairman Johan Schluter, a member of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, a London-based group that represents musicians and music companies in 75 countries. Another board member is Niels Bo Jorgensen, a member of the Danish Anti-Piracy Group.”
For decades, the MPAA has staunchly fought piracy in many forms, facing both the challenges and the opportunities of new technologies and movie formats, whether on celluloid, television, satellite, cable TV, videocassettes, DVDs or online, it said recently.
By way of an example of the efforts put in as the decades passed, exMPAA boss Jack Valenti said:
“We are going to bleed and bleed and hemorrhage, unless this Congress at least protects one industry that is able to retrieve a surplus balance of trade and whose total future depends on its protection from the savagery and the ravages of this machine.”
He uttered the words in 1981 when the entertainment industry was being threatened with ruin and damnation by the arrival of, Yes, the awful Betamax VCR.
“I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone,” he stated darkly.
Now, “This latest enforcement step will help ensure a bright future for movies in the digital era,” says the MPAA.
Stay tuned.
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See:-
identify and delete - Hollywood Sues Suspected Movie Pirates, Washington Post, November 16, 2004
staunchly fought - MPAA sue ‘em all war, p2pnet, November 4, 2004
November 16th, 2004 at 10:52 pm
Jack Valenti…what a Nazi!
November 17th, 2004 at 10:03 am
It will, “identify and delete all file-sharing programs and illegally copied movie and music files on their computers,” says the Washington Post. “The software will not report evidence of illegal content back to the studios, the association said.
Who would believe that it will not report evidence of illegal content????
And another thing, u must be dumb to download a piece of software that will do the above!!!!
November 17th, 2004 at 10:13 am
I went to the website, www.respectcopyright.org
and clicked on some legal websites were I can download movies.
Guess what I always recieved this meesage:
“Thanks for your interest in Movielink, the leading source for movies delivered directly over the internet. We want you to enjoy our powerful movie download experience, but it is presently unavailable to users outside of the United States.
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Y is it available only on the United States,!!!! The internet is the world, p2p is worldwide!!!! Thats y u loose money MPAA, because u want to suck out money as much as possible from ur consumers rather than selling a good product and let consumer decide what method to choose to buy that product, wheter internet download, cinema, vhs, dvd etc!!!
November 17th, 2004 at 2:26 pm
I’m just wondering how the program would decide what’s a legal mp3 and what’s illegal. I can just image a parent comes home, runs the progam and suddenly their child’s entire mp3 collection (all either ripped from a cd or bought from online music stores) goes poof.
November 17th, 2004 at 4:08 pm
The MPAA, RIAA, etc have don’t understand the meaning of “fair-use.” Therefore it makes no difference to them whether its a backup, which is legal, for now, or downloaded from a P2P network.
November 20th, 2004 at 3:13 am
I hope it does. there will be tons of Napster, and Itunes customers seeing red.
November 20th, 2004 at 3:14 am
I searched on Kazza lite to see what what avaliable. the moment I clicked on Shrek 2 My Peer Guardian was not only hit by Disney but also by the state of Oregon.
November 20th, 2004 at 1:39 pm
That bullsh1t logo & site don’t bother me im going to do what i want. MPAA go take a hike you greedy basterds oh yah people won’t buy your crap about downloading some spyware to delete files. Sue all you want and will download all we want
MUHAHAHA
November 20th, 2004 at 1:41 pm
lol dude becareful these basterds are going to try anything they can. Get off of kazza dude and get some kind of real software.