MPAA Wrong On Piracy Prevalence
The Motion Picture Association of America is the latest poster child for reasons not to trust research put out by entities with vested interests in the results of the research. The MPAA is having to send out word that their previous estimates of movie piracy on college campuses were a bit overstated—by a factor of [...]
MPAA Files Suit Against Two Web Sites
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has filed lawsuits against two Web sites that it says are committing copyright infringement by allowing the viewing of pirated films. The sites named in the suit are Cinematube.net and Ssupload.com. Cinematube is located in Malayasia and receives 24,000 unique visitors each day who view 85,000pages of content. [...]
Porn Picks Bone With Torrents
It’s hard to have sympathy for a dirty, exploitative medium when the producers of it cry foul over piracy – after all dirty is as dirty does, and karma can be your friend or your enemy. But at the same time, copyrights are copyrights and are intended to protect the truly artful from thieves as [...]
File-Sharing Could Get University Funding Cut?
So as state-funded university tuition rises faster than the inflation rate, grants are becoming nonexistent, and students are actually looking abroad to complete their education cheaper and in half the time, Congressmen cozy with the RIAA are threatening to cut their funding more if they don’t play ball with the recording labels. The latest in [...]
Movie Downloads To Reach $5.8 Billion
The Internet-delivered movie industry is set to take off. This is welcome news for Hollywood and the Motion Picture Association of America. According to Adams Media Research the Internet movie industry will reach $5.8 billion in revenue by 2011. Video downloads will account for $4.1 billion in the US. While movie revenues rely on making [...]
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