A week after the White House unveiled a plan to combat copyright theft, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York launched Operation in Our Sites, a concerted effort with Hollywood, to take down dot coms that offer firstrun movies and TV shows for download.
The nine sites [...]
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NEWS: Feds Ice Net Piracy
July 1st, 2010 No Comments
Tags: Internet Piracy · Movie Piracy · Piracy · US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
NEWS: Hollywood Faces New Piracy Threat
June 22nd, 2010 No Comments
Consumers downloading free pirated movies are no longer Hollywood’s worst nightmare, but that’s only because of a new, more dreaded menace: cheap, and equally illegal, subscription services.
Foreign, often mob-run, businesses aggregate illegally obtained movies into “cyberlockers” similar to Internet storage sites used by individual consumers to squirrel away pirated video. But the for-profit version of [...]
Tags: cyberlockers · illegal downloads · Movie Piracy · Piracy
News: Spain Finds That Film Piracy is a Hard Habit to Break
April 2nd, 2010 No Comments
It has been the setting for many a spaghetti western, but now Hollywood has warned that Spain could be facing high noon over its appalling record of movie piracy, with a future devoid of DVDs.
The unauthorised downloading of films from the internet is so rife, with film-makers complaining that a legal void makes people think [...]
Tags: Illegal File-sharing · Internet Piracy · Movie Piracy
News: Trend of Movies Premiering on the Internet Catching Up
February 11th, 2010 No Comments
Mumbai: A new trend has arrived in Bollywood: Simultaneous releases on the marquee and the net.
Film-maker Chandan Arora’s latest movie starring south Indian actor Siddharth has made a history of sorts in the Hindi film industry. It released on YouTube on the same day when it opened at the box office. The movie has been [...]
Tags: anti-piracy · Bollywood · Movie Industry · Movie Piracy · YouTube
News: Film industry starts landmark piracy case against iiNet
October 8th, 2009 No Comments
Australians who share pirated movies online could have their internet connections cancelled under a legal claim that got underway in a Sydney court today.
The local film industry is taking on iiNet, Australia’s third-largest internet service provider (ISP), with claims it allows users to illegally share copyright material.
If the group of 34 film companies wins the [...]
Tags: Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft · iiNet · ISPs · Movie Piracy · peer-to-peer filesharing
News: Hollywood aims to stomp out ‘illegal’ DVD copier
April 27th, 2009 1 Comment
SAN FRANCISCO — Hollywood calls it “rent, rip and return” and contends it’s one of the biggest technological threats to the movie industry’s annual $20-billion DVD market — software that allows you to copy a film without paying for it.
On Friday, the showdown over the issue will take place in federal court in San Francisco, [...]
Tags: DVD · Movie Piracy · RealNetworks
News: Piracy Sinking Lebanon Cinema, Music, Cable Industry
February 23rd, 2009 No Comments
BEIRUT (AFP) — Tarek won’t bother going to the local cinema to see Hollywood hits “Valkyrie” or “Revolutionary Road”. Like most Lebanese, he can watch them at home for a dollar thanks to a rampaging culture of piracy.
“Why should I pay 30 dollars to buy a film when I can get a copy for three [...]
Tags: Movie Piracy · Movies · Piracy
