Motion Picture Association of America sues free movie sites
Hollywood (CA) - The Motion Picture Association of America has filed
a lawsuit against two sites that have reportedly been used to transfer illegally
pirated movies.
Motion Picture Association sues video download sites
By Mark Raby Friday, September 28, 2007
found at tgdaily.com
The MPAA brought the suit against Cinematube.net
and Ssupload.com,
seeking an injunction against them for what they claim is blatant
copyright infringement.
Cinematube.net, for example, features films like Ratatouille on its home page, claiming tens of thousands of views for each title.
Cinematube's servers are listed as being located in Malaysia, and the site
receives a report 24,000 unique viewers per day. So it is not clear to
me how they will close the site.
update:
http://cinematube.net/
has been permanently shut down because it was operated in violation of
copyright laws.
On May 7, 2008, a Federal Judge in Los Angeles issued a $1.375 million
judgment against Cinematube.net for the infringement of numerous popular
copyrighted motion pictures and television shows.
Ssupload features films like Good Luck
Chuck is shown to be
located in Arizona, et 50,000 requests a day and tells they are only linking to sites
like Stage6, Google Video and YouTube . The site was also closed down.
"We are putting illegal Web operators on notice that they are not above
the law and will face serious consequences for their activities," said
MPAA VP and the group's head of anti-piracy John Malcolm.
Fearing
the Motion Picture Association of America or its entourage are
monitoring that BitTorrents site that has all the latest flicks?
Fear no more. Go mainstream: Click to Google
Video.
At one of the world's most popular sites, there's some 300
full-length movies ( links on that pdf file seems to hve been all
removed) for the taking, including the recently released The
Simpsons Movie, Shrek the Third, Oceans Thirteen,
The Bourne Ultimatum, Knocked Up and more. Quality
varies.
Old-schoolers should be stoked as Help and Yellow
Submarine from the Beatles are there unless Google has removed
them by now.
The National
Legal and Policy Center is publicizing this cache and sent
Congress a report Tuesday detailing its findings. It
told Congress it was concerned that the movie studios were getting
ripped off -- purloined right before their eyes. The group chronicled
22 million video views as part of its study.
"As you continue to debate intellectual property issues in the
months ahead, we urge you to pay close attention to the
'mainstreaming' of video piracy by internet leaders such as Google,
and urge you to continue taking strong and enforceable measures to
protect the intellectual property of American business," said the
letter to Congress from Ken Boehm, the center's chairman.
The operators of the Bit Torrent site PirateBay
will be suing
numerous music and film industry companies for computer sabotage because
internal e-mails from a company working for the Motion
Picture Association of America (MPAA)
appeared on the
internet.
They now have proof that the music and film industry employs professional
crackers, saboteurs and DDoS initiators to sabotage PirateBay's content. The
names of the offending companies have apparently been passed on to the
police.
It remains to be seen whether the accusations will be enough to form a case.
That will also depend upon whether a file containing supposed e-mail records
would serve as proof. At the same time, PirateBay is also the target of frequent
inquiries. Last year, servers were seized in a raid
that put the service temporarily offline. (jk/c't)
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Motion Picture Association of America sues free movie sites
Fearing
the Motion Picture Association of America or its entourage are
monitoring that BitTorrents site that has all the latest flicks?
