p2pnet - rss feed: MPAA sues more movie ‘pirates’
p2pnet.net News:- The Big Seven movie studios have used their MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) to sue more people they say are illegally distributing films online.
“During a conference call that was short on details, MPAA officials would not disclose how many lawsuits they had filed or where,” says the Los Angeles Daily News.
“They also did not say whether any of the pirated movies originated from highly guarded Academy Award screeners that are sent to members in order to view nominated films at home.”
A report from AT&T Lab’s Secure Systems Research program says of 285 underground movies sampled, 77% were leaked by industry insiders, and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences member Carmine Caridi, 70, was ordered to pay Warner Bros $300,000 for providing copies of The Last Samurai and Mystic River to Russell Sprague, 51, who then put them on the p2p nets.
Moreover, Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ was the most-posted movie on the p2p networks in April, 2004. But Gibson sued not file sharers, but a Hollywood post-production company.
But, “This is something we feel we must do,” John Malcolm, MPAA director of worldwide anti-piracy operations is quoted as saying in the Daily News report, going on:
“The litigation targets movie fans who share digitized versions of films over peer-to-peer networks. Under the United States Copyright Act, each violator could be subject to fines of between $30,000 and $150,000 per violation.”
The MPAA is nonetheless still reporting record, not to say eye-popping, profits in the billions of dollars.
“In a few days, movie fans everywhere will be riveted to the Academy Awards broadcast celebrating the year’s best films,” says MPAA boss Dan Glickman.
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See:-
short on details - MPAA files more pirating suits, Los Angeles Daily News, February 24, 2005
$300,000 - NYPD Blue actor p2p pirate?, p2pnet, November 24, 2004
most-posted - Scrambled Screeners, p2pnet, September 4, 2004
February 25th, 2005 at 5:23 pm
Who cares about the academy awards, I have better things to do with my time then to view this hollywood BS.
I’m waiting for “Downhill Battle” to come out with MPAA stickers so we can plaster them all over the movie theater signs. MPAA is attempting to sue children and grandmothers, rent your movies instead of going to the theater.
February 25th, 2005 at 6:31 pm
The first court ruling in which they were told they had to sue one person at a time is telling.
It’s hard to wage a campagn of terror to “scare people straight” if you can only sue 1 person at a time, so they sue ‘an undisclosed number’ of people and try to inflate the affects of what theyre doing.
Mark my words.. they dont publicise the number because they want to generate fear when there is no rightful cause for concern.
February 25th, 2005 at 9:20 pm
don’t even rent films or tv shows. download them for free because IT IS LEGAL.
every time a film is rented, the studios get a commission. rental shops must have permission (or a license) to rent out films and tv shows, and they must keep precise records for each dvd/vhs that they rent out so they know how much they have to pay back to the studios.
so…download them for free because IT IS LEGAL.
i hate when “journalists” use ‘television’ and ‘pirates’ in the same sentence to describe something that IS NOT ILLEGAL.
the ONLY way that it can be construed as “piracy” is if someone has an illegal cable/satellite hookup.
downloading is legal. recording tv/movies is legal. ripping dvds is legal. filesharing is legal. p2p is legal. tv is free - even though in UK one “must” pay for a tv “license”.
also, one can do whatever one wants with programs they pay for from HBO, Showtime, SkyTV, etc.
there is NO piracy involved. it is all legal.
it’s all a part of the NWO (New World Order) agenda to indoctrinate us to their way of thinking and control how we think and how we obtain our info and entertainment. all tv networks and news networks are part of this agenda. that is why july 2005 will see the introduction of “broadcast flags” encrypted into digital tv shows which will stop you from things like filesharing, or even just being able to edit out or skip through ads, or even burn programs to disc. this will affect all PVR’s, DVR’s, TiVos and pc tuner cards IN USA which are manufactured from July 2005. all part of their NWO DRM (digital rights management) agendas. and if you are able to share these through p2p, you can bet the spies will be able to identify the broadcast flags and zero in on you. apparently there is already new software which can identify the original seeder even if that person is no longer seeding the file.
more on broadcast flags here:
http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/HDTV/
feel like getting yourself and your family and pets microchipped for “safety reasons”? you think you “need” GPS and bluetooth in your phone and car and your fridge? you think the cracking of the SHA-1 hash codes earlier this week was just a college student prank or accidental experiment? think again.
extinct/endangered gizmos here:
http://www.eff.org/endangered/
nothing to worry about, sheeple. it’s all part of the plan.
UPDATE on broadcast flags:
although a court recently ruled that the FCC went “too far” regarding broadcast flags, the law has not yet been struck off. so as of this writing, july 1 will be the start date for them.
February 25th, 2005 at 10:23 pm
“In a few days, movie fans everywhere will be riveted to the Academy Awards broadcast celebrating the year’s best films,” says MPAA boss Dan Glickman.
uh huh, except I’ll be encouraging everyone I know (that watches this tripe) to not watch it live but download it afterwards and watch without ads.
February 26th, 2005 at 2:01 am
I live in the U.S. and I don’t blame the MPAA. I blame our beloved Congress for passing such restrictive copyright laws. Of course, nobody ever thinks about what congress has done and Congress just keeps listening to Hollywood’s BS and keeps on passing more and more restrictive Laws. Congress does not have the Best Interests of the Consumer in mind.
February 26th, 2005 at 2:12 am
Congress has fogotten who they work for. I think they need a reminder in ‘06. Vote the incumbants out, especially the long termers who were bought long ago. It’s time to clean house.
February 26th, 2005 at 3:07 am
AT&T is trying to sell the movie industry on some digital rights management protection system. They include projectionists as “industry insiders”. When was the last time you saw a projectionist arriving at his job in a big limo?
February 26th, 2005 at 9:06 am
Money rules the world.
Ladies and Gentelman welcome to the Digital Age of the Dark Ages, where the Lords and the Kings and those who had money, and those (majority) of people who were poor, were burned at the stake, being ripped of their earnings for tax reasons, etc etc.
!!!!!!!
Is this the future the world, is looking ahead!
The US government forgot,that they are there to help the weak, and not to help the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. (This unfortunately applies to many western governments)
I do not believe that a vote can make a difference, because alot of people, are eitheir just biased or don`t care about which political party is in governement, so unless, something big really happens (60`s style protests
), nothing will change.
February 27th, 2005 at 12:06 am
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February 27th, 2005 at 2:13 am
Haha that pic of Glickman always cracks me up, looks like a stupid old freak.
February 27th, 2005 at 4:12 am
You know what?
YOU PEOPLE ARE FUCKING STUPID.
SO WHAT ARE YOU PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DO WHEN YOU GET A SUMMONS TO APPEAR IN COURT TO PAY A EVEN A $30000 SETTLEMENT?
I KNOW I CAN’T AFFORD IT.
I GOT NEWS FOR YOU.
YOU WILL NOT GET OUT OF PAYING IT.
THE LAW IS STACKED AGAINEST YOU SO ALL OF YOU WILL HAVE TO TAKE YOUR CORNHAULING LIKE A CHAMP.
MOVIE AND MUSIC DOWNLOADS ARE LIKE ANYTHING ELSE.
YOU HAVE TO PAY TO PLAY.
It will happen that way is because in the united states everybody in the us house of representatives and the us senate take kickbacks and bribes from the mpaa and riaa AND MAKE FUCKING STUPID LAWS LIKE THE MPAA so people in the entertainment industry can buttfuck all you naive thiefs in the ass for stealing from them.
I REALLY RESENT THE FACT AS A UNITED STATES CITIZEN FOR ALL INTENT AND PURPOSES I CAN’T LEGALLY MAKE A COPY OF A HOLLYWOOD MOVIE.
Read the article below i found at reuters and the same thing is posted at p2pnet.net.
it will cost you $150000 per download so bend over and pucker up your culo baby……………………
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood’s major movie studios filed a new round of lawsuits across the United States on Thursday against people who trade illegally copied films and TV shows on the Internet.
The civil suits against unnamed “John Doe” defendants seek up to $150,000 per downloaded digital file and come as the U.S. film industry prepares for its annual Oscar telecast in Hollywood where awards for top films and stars are given out.
The studios, represented by the Motion Picture Association of America, took the opportunity of the Oscars to again press the case that the illegal copying of films and their black-market distribution on the Internet is costing them millions of dollars a year in lost revenue.
The studios claim they lose $3.5 billion worldwide in annual revenues from sales of illegally copied movies on video and DVD formats in street bazaars and black markets.
The studios argue that the lost revenue means fewer artists will work to create movies or TV shows. Traditionally the films that are rewarded by Oscar voters at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are those that take thematic and commercial risks.
“When rampant online theft occurs, these films become that much harder to finance…we cannot and will not let that happen,” MPAA Chief Executive Dan Glickman said in a telephone conference call with reporters.
MPAA officials said “several” of the Oscar nominated films had illegal copies on the Internet that could be downloaded, but they named only comedy “Sideways,” which is nominated for best picture.
“Sideways” is a low-budget movie but was considered a financially risky one for its backers at Fox Searchlight because of its offbeat subject matter. Fox Searchlight is a division of News Corp Ltd’s Twentieth Century Fox movie studio.
MPAA officials declined to say how many suits it had filed or whether the illegal copies were made by video camera taping in theaters or by copying videos or DVDs that are given away by the studios this time of year to win Oscar votes.
Earlier this month, the MPAA filed lawsuits against computer networks utilizing a software technology known as BitTorrent, but these new suits were against end users, or people who actually downloaded the films.
Reuters/VNU
© Reuters 2005. All Rights Reserved.
February 27th, 2005 at 5:27 am
What I don’t understand is why no one is going after the POLITICANS that pass such a stupid law! This is like the case between VHS vs. Beta, they said then that it would ruin the movie theaters. Guess what? They are thriving, so much for that!
February 27th, 2005 at 2:49 pm
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February 28th, 2005 at 4:36 am
If I recall correctly, the laws that were passed in the 1990’s were in addition to the total revamp of the copyright laws passed in 1976. The laws passed in 1976 were the basis for all the non-consumer friendly laws passed in the 1990’s. It’s a total rip off of the U.S. society as a whole. The laws passed in 1976 were kind of a backdoored deal. They didn’t advertize them until they were signed into law when nobody could do anything about them.
Don’t get me wrong, I believe in copyright laws that are fair. These laws are far to restrictive and Congress in it’s infinate wisdom keep making them more and more restrictive.
February 28th, 2005 at 1:30 pm
Vote Libertarian or Constitution Party.
http://www.lp.org
http://www.constitutionparty.com
The Republicrats and Demicans have long ago stopped representing We The People.
February 28th, 2005 at 1:41 pm
I have posted here for quite some time. It was only after I made the comment about fining the RIAA that I finally downloaded LimeWire. I will never buy music again from RIAA members.
If they sue me that is fine. They can’t get blood out of a carrot. I don’t own any property. I can switch jobs if someone tries to garnish my wages. I can even pay them a little visit if I have to to get them off my back. I have 0 respect for these cartel thugs. Another cartel sent my decent paying job overseas last year. If you think that this cartel pass the reduction in wages to the consumer? Think again. These giant cartels are the Enemy Within, and I hope to see them put out of business.