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19 Oct 2009, 1:47 pm
That’s what happened in the Motion Picture Association of America’s lawsuit against TorrentSpy, a BitTorrent tracker that a Los Angeles federal judge ordered to pay $111 million for pretrial shenanigans. [read post]
10 Apr 2007, 3:44 pm
  The Motion Picture Association of America' torpedoing of a similar bill last summer was first reported in Wired News last year, though the MPAA refused to return calls for comment for over a month. [read post]
7 Sep 2012, 12:46 am by Stan
But today the company behind Taobao, Alibaba Group, has done something about it, and has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Motion Picture Association (MPA), a group affiliated with the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), to try stamp out movie piracy in the popular shopping service. [read post]
13 May 2015, 6:16 pm
Amidst a discussion of new top-level domain names (such as “.sucks”), a lawyer representing the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and other groups told the House Judiciary Committee’s Internet subcommittee that ICANN should force the companies that register domain names to suspend domains based on accusations of copyright infringement. [read post]
19 Dec 2014, 11:10 am by Parker Higgins
" The subpoena itself is bad enough, but here's what's really disturbing: the real force behind it appears to be the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), which has been quietly supporting state-level prosecutors in various efforts to target the company and the open Internet. [read post]
26 May 2015, 11:23 am
Powerful corporate interests like the Motion Picture Association of America, Recording Industry Association of America, and the Business Software Alliance are intent on having anti-user trade deals pass without proper oversight. [read post]
12 Aug 2020, 5:24 pm by Jody Simon
The Directors Guild of America also weighed in on the subject on behalf of the creative community. [read post]
26 Aug 2014, 11:43 am by Maira Sutton
In light of this ruling, the White House has sent a memo specifying new rules, permitting lobbyists to once again officially serve on federal agencies if they are representing a specific client (such as say, the Motion Picture Association of America). [read post]
14 Apr 2016, 7:41 am
The notorious Motion Picture Association of America anti-piracy advert [above – and which, ironically enough, was reportedly using music without permission] hammered out a message that illegal downloading is stealing, piracy, and (for the avoidance of doubt) a crime. [read post]
21 Mar 2020, 6:19 am
The following email has been approved for all ages by the motion picture association of America/ It sets forth by Judge Sayfie the limited procedures for REGJB felony cases: (emphasis in red original)Star Wars Fans can call this email "The Rise of the JAs"  (cue Darth Vader music-see below). [read post]
29 Sep 2016, 3:07 pm by Jeremy Malcolm and Mitch Stoltz
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) Trusted Notifier Program, which requires Internet domain name registries Radix and Donuts to disable the domains of websites that are accused of hosting infringing content. [read post]
17 Mar 2013, 1:29 pm by Anubha Sinha
   Amongst several other factors, a prominent indication is the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) opening office in India in 2009, to protect and promote the American film industry. [read post]
4 Sep 2014, 3:51 am by Ben
Research from the Motion Picture Association Of America (MPAA) claims that web-blocking in the UK is proving a substantial deterrent to online piracy - even where proxy sites enable users to access blocked services. [read post]
1 Oct 2008, 9:18 am
“RealNetworks RealDVD should be called StealDVD,” said Greg Goeckner, the general counsel of the Motion Picture Association of America, the main lobbying arm of the movie studios, in a statement. [read post]
9 Sep 2011, 1:05 pm by David Kravets
The FBI has only allowed its use by members of the Recording Industry Association of America, Business Software Alliance, Entertainment Software Association, Software & Information Industry Association, and of course the Motion Picture Association of America, which likes to make sure you can’t fast-forward through the DVD while the warning is displayed, thus driving you to download an MPEG from the Pirate Bay. [read post]
25 Jan 2019, 6:00 am by Terry Hart
Netflix Joins the Motion Picture Association of America — It was announced this week that the streaming service will become a part of the 97-year-old trade association for film studios. [read post]
8 May 2012, 3:45 pm by David Kravets
The government said the major studios of the Motion Picture Association of America are authorized to use them. [read post]
7 May 2010, 4:14 pm by David Kravets
The Motion Picture Association of America said its member studios would not authorize the early movie releases unless it won the ability to deploy Selectable Output Control. [read post]
4 Aug 2008, 6:20 pm
The primary reason the RIAA is making the argument -- a position backed by the Motion Picture Association of America -- is because it is generally not technically possible to determine whether somebody is downloading files from another's share folder on a peer-to-peer network. [read post]
19 Dec 2014, 4:17 pm by Joe Mullin
Hood's investigation got revved up after at least a year of intense lobbying by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). [read post]