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| Feb 17, 2026 | AT GLOBAL IMPACT SUMMIT, RIVKIN CHAMPIONS CREATOR-CENTERED AI POLICY | AI's future depends on protecting creativity, building trust, and strengthening value for creators, MPA chairman declares
DELHI, India, Feb. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- On February 16, the opening day of India's AI Impact Summit, Charles Rivki... |
| Jun 12, 2025 | 123Movies: How Millions Watched Free Movies Online Instantly | Share
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In the golden age of digital entertainment, when audiences craved instant access to movies and TV shows, one name emerged that shook the very core of the online streaming world—123Movies. It wasn’t just another... |
| Dec 25, 2024 | The Battle for Screens: Sonic Outpaces Mufasa in Holiday Box Office Showdown | The holiday season is a battleground for family films. This year, the clash between Paramount Pictures’ "Sonic The Hedgehog 3" and Disney’s "Mufasa: The Lion King" has captured the spotlight. The stakes are high, and the... |
| Dec 20, 2024 | ACE Shutters One of the Largest Live Sports Piracy Rings in the World | Vietnam-based Markkystreams[dot]com and 137 Associated Domains Comprise Largest Live Sports Piracy Operation Takedown to Date
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), the world's leadin... |
| Apr 30, 2024 | Rightsholders Want U.S. “Know Your Customer” Proposal to Include Domain Name Services | Many people see optional anonymity as a key feature of the Internet but increasingly there are calls for stricter identity checks.
While a full-blown ‘Internet passport’ is not yet required anywhere just yet, ‘know your customer’ requiremen... |
| Apr 13, 2024 | This Week In Techdirt History: April 7th – 13th | Five Years Ago
This week in 2019, Colorado’s net neutrality bill was heading to the governor’s desk while Mitch McConnell was promising a House net neutrality bill would never get past the Senate. The UK proposed a ridiculous plan to fine i... |
| Mar 29, 2024 | ‘The New York Times Needs More than ‘Imagined Fears’ to Block AI Innovation’ | Starting last year, various rightsholders have filed lawsuits against companies that develop AI models.
The list of complainants includes record labels, book authors, visual artists, and even the New York Times. These rightsholders all obje... |
| May 29, 2019 | Term Sheet — Wednesday May 29, Endeavor IPO, Women, and Robinhood | ENDEAVORING
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| Apr 12, 2019 | DVD and Blu-ray sales nearly halved over five years, MPAA report says | Enlarge / Samsung's UBS-K8500, introduced in 2015, was positioned as the world's first UltraHD, 4K Blu-ray player.
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| Apr 12, 2019 | Vendas globais de DVD e Blu-ray caem pela metade em cinco anos | As bilheterias dos cinemas vêm aumentando seu faturamento ao redor do mundo, e a indústria do entretenimento doméstico segue crescendo graças ao streaming de séries e filmes. Enquanto isso, o DVD e o Blu-ray vêm sendo lentamente deixados de... |
| Mar 30, 2019 | Global video streaming market is largely controlled by the usual suspects | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Weeks after Steven Spielberg took a swing at Netf... |
| Mar 22, 2019 | Assinaturas de streaming de vídeo ultrapassam TV a cabo no mundo | Há quem diga que os dias da TV paga estão contados, e estamos vendo um dos sinais disso. Pela primeira vez, as assinaturas de streaming de vídeo — como Netflix e Amazon Prime Video — ultrapassaram globalmente o número de clientes de TV a ca... |
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| Aug 21, 2018 | Piracy is the Internet’s Canary in the Coal Mine, MPAA Chief Says | The entertainment industries are growing increasingly frustrated with major Internet platforms that, in their view, are not doing enough to tackle online piracy.
This was also the topic of a speech given by MPAA chief Charles Rivkin, during... |
| Aug 7, 2018 | MPAA: To Save Free Speech, We Must Broadly Censor Free Speech | Earlier this year, we wrote about a thought-provoking article by Zeynep Tufecki discussing how some people were deliberately trying to use the open “marketplace of ideas” to effectively attempt to poison the marketplace of ideas. Also menti... |
| Jul 24, 2018 | MPAA: Doing Nothing About Online Lawlessness Chills Free Speech | Early June, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, the agency that acts as the President’s principal adviser on telecommunications policies, requested comments for its Inquiry on International Internet Policy Priori... |
| Jun 28, 2018 | Television content creation in China | Hugh Harsono Contributor
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| May 16, 2018 | Internet Association Blasts MPAA’s ‘Crony Politics’ | Last month, MPAA Chairman and CEO Charles Rivkin used the Facebook privacy debacle to voice his concern about the current state of the Internet.
“The Internet is no longer nascent – and people around the world are growing increasingly uncom... |
| May 3, 2018 | MPAA-Seized Popcorn Time Domain Now Redirects to Pirate Site (Updated) | Four years ago Popcorn Time took the Internet by storm.
The software amassed millions of users by offering BitTorrent-powered streaming in an easy-to-use Netflix-style interface.
While the original developers shut down their project after a... |
| Apr 11, 2018 | MPAA Quietly Shut Down Its ‘Legal’ Movie Search Engine | During the fall of 2014, Hollywood launched WhereToWatch, its very own search engine for movies and TV-shows.
The site enabled people to check if and where the latest entertainment was available, hoping to steer U.S. visitors away from pira... |
| Apr 4, 2018 | Global markets saving films from US movie malaise | More On: movie theaters
AMC boss admits $27.9M stake in gold and silver mine likely a surprise to investors This safe room with a retina scan is now a home theater in a $7M mansion Why AMC is charging 'bold' higher prices for 'The Batman' t... |
| Mar 1, 2018 | How do you capture a market like the African VoD market? | Share this article:
In 2017, Africa lost a fine prospect in its nascent video streaming industry; the startup, Afrostream, died after only 2 years of operation.
Surprisingly, the startup was not berated for failing to keep its head above wa... |
| Oct 9, 2017 | TVAddons: We shouldn't be in MPAA's 'Online Notorious Markets' report after zero DMCA complaints from members | TVAddons is famous -- some would say infamous, even notorious -- in Kodi circles. The controversial Kodi addons site has been the subject of a lawsuit and even abuse from Kodi itself. Last week the site was mentioned in the Online Notorious... |
| Aug 7, 2017 | Film Director's Op-Ed Ignores Reality To Push Hollywood Lobbying Talking Points | John Singleton — the director of “Boyz n the Hood” — has written an op-ed for The Hill (apparently at the behest of two groups heavily-influenced by major studio money) decrying “digital theft.” What will happen to young indie directors lik... |
| May 24, 2017 | Senate Should Either Fix Or Get Off The Pot On Copyright Office Bill | The U.S. Senate is about to consider mostly pointless legislation that would make the nation’s register of copyrights—the individual who heads the U.S. Copyright Office, officially a part of the Library of Congress—a presidential appointmen... |
| Apr 18, 2017 | MPAA Tracks ‘The Fate of the Furious’ Pirates, Two Men Arrested | According to the world’s major movie studios, piracy during a movie’s opening release window is the most damaging to the industry. That’s almost completely down to the way movies are marketed.
In the weeks and early months following a major... |
| Mar 30, 2017 | DMCA Helps YouTube Avoid Up to $1bn in Royalties Per Year, Study Claims | With much at stake, one gets the impression that the debate over the safe harbor provisions of the DMCA is likely to boil over before it goes away.
In a nutshell, rightsholders believe that some Internet platforms that allow users to upload... |
| Dec 15, 2016 | Popcorn Time adds support for dubbed movies | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Popcorn Time, an app for streaming video torrents, added a new feature to its arsenal today: dubbing support. English content is now av... |
| Dec 15, 2016 | Popcorn Time adds support for dubbed movies | Popcorn Time, an app for streaming video torrents, added a new feature to its arsenal today: dubbing support. English content is now available in French, Spanish, Italian, German, and Portuguese as well.
Popcorn Time automates the whole tor... |
| Oct 28, 2016 | MPAA: EFF Just Jealous It Doesn't Control Copyright Office Like Hollywood Does | Earlier this week we wrote about the revelation, via a FOIA request by the EFF, that the Copyright Office consulted heavily with Hollywood (the MPAA directly, and a variety of movie studios) before weighing in on the FCC’s set top box compe... |
| Oct 11, 2016 | The Pirate Bay, Extratorrent, Rarbg, Uploaded, Rapidgator And Others Cited In MPAA Report To US Government | James Geddes, Tech Times 11 October 2016, 11:10 pm
The Motion Picture Association of America has submitted a list of websites it accuses of contributing to "notorious markets" to the U.S. government. The list includes popular torr... |
| Sep 9, 2016 | MPAA Freaks Out In Response To FCC's Revised Set Top Box Plan | So Karl has already pointed out the ridiculousness of Comcast complaining about the new FCC set top box proposal — a proposal that is basically identical to the one that Comcast itself had proposed in response to the FCC’s original, more co... |
| Sep 8, 2016 | FCC changes cable box rules to please industry, gets blowback anyway | Enlarge
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| Jul 8, 2016 | Fair Use Threatens Innovation, Copyright Holders Warn | Earlier this year the Australian Government’s Productivity Commission released a Draft Report on Intellectual Property Arrangements, recommending various improvements to the country’s copyright policies.
The commission suggested allowing th... |
| Jun 22, 2016 | MPAA Happily Gets Into Bed With Russian State Censor Agency… To Protect Copyright! | Roskomnadzor is the Russian “telecommunications regulator” or “watchdog,” but it could just as easily be described as the Russian internet censor, because that appears to be a large part of its role in the country. In the past, we’ve writte... |
| May 14, 2016 | MPAA ‘Invests’ Millions in Academic Piracy Research | All over the world, hundreds of researchers are looking into the effects of piracy and copyright legislation.
These studies are interesting from an academic point of view, but they are also crucially important for stakeholders who lobby law... |
| May 2, 2016 | Congressmen think FCC’s set-top box plan is just like “Popcorn Time” | Descrier reader comments 107 with 80 posters participating
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| Apr 26, 2016 | MPAA Says Pirate Sites Will Take Advantage of Set-Top Box Proposals | For millions of cable TV viewers around the world, the only way to access the content provided by broadcasters is through a set-top box. In many cases these boxes are provided exclusively by broadcasters, forcing out competition.
This consu... |
| Apr 19, 2016 | Microsoft’s Azure Awarded FACT Anti-Piracy Seal of Approval | The UK’s Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) is probably best known for activities aimed at tracking down the operators of pirate sites and the release groups who frequent them.
Financed by the film industry, over the years FACT has f... |
| Apr 13, 2016 | Piracy Fails to Prevent Another Box Office Record | MPAA chairman and CEO Chris Dodd made his fifth keynote speech at CinemaCon yesterday, pouring buckets of cold water on the idea that piracy is somehow threatening the very existence of the movie industry.
“I’m proud to say that the state o... |
| Apr 11, 2016 | MPA: We’ve Reached a Turning Point on Piracy | After many years of litigation aimed at forcing the world’s largest pirate sites to their knees, the situation on the ground hasn’t changed very much for Hollywood.
Despite having many important legal wins under their belts, almost every si... |
| Apr 2, 2016 | This Millennium’s Best Picture Oscar Winners Are Not On Netflix | An often heard excuse from pirates is that they can’t find the content they’re looking for in their home country, at least not for a decent price.
In recent months Hollywood has started to attack what they see as a myth, pointing out that m... |
| Mar 3, 2016 | Desperation Shows As Critics Argue That Nominated Librarian Of Congress Is 'Pro Obscenity' | Last week, we wrote about the exciting decision by President Obama to nominate Dr. Carla Hayden to be the next Librarian of Congress. As we noted at the time, she seemed immensely qualified for the position, having successfully run and mode... |
| Feb 2, 2016 | Torrents Time lets anyone launch their own web version of Popcorn Time | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Popcorn Time, an app for streaming video torrents, just got a new web version: Popcorn Time Online. Unlike other attempts to bring Popc... |
| Feb 2, 2016 | Torrents Time lets anyone launch their own web version of Popcorn Time | Popcorn Time, an app for streaming video torrents, just got a new web version: Popcorn Time Online. Unlike other attempts to bring Popcorn Time into the browser, this one is powered by a tool called Torrents Time, which delivers the movies ... |
| Nov 10, 2015 | Google Wins, Movie Studios Lose As Court Blocks ITC Control Over Data | A federal appeals court rejected the International Trade Commission's attempt to assert control over electronic transmissions, in a case involving dental retainers that ultimately pitted Google and other Internet companies against the movie... |
| Oct 22, 2015 | Google Says It Will Not De-List Entire Sites For Copyright Violations | In an open letter to the Office and Management and Budget’s Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, Google announced today that it opposes the practice of removing entire sites from search results.
Google’s letter is in response to a... |
| Aug 19, 2015 | MPAA Throws Hissy Fit Over USTR Even Thinking About Expanding Fair Use In TPP | We’ve been discussing the concept of “fair use” and how ridiculous it is that the USTR seems to be ignoring it. Back in 2012 there was great fanfare out of the USTR, when they said, for the very first time, they’d be including “limitations ... |
| Aug 18, 2015 | Kim Dotcom Leaks Conversation With UMG, Showing That Lawyers Run The Digital Music Industry | Yesterday, Kim Dotcom tweeted an audio recording of a phone conversation between himself and Universal Music Group, about a potential deal between the music label and Megaupload.
While the call was just two days before the 2012 raid and shu... |
| Aug 9, 2015 | MPAA Recruits Software Programmer to Combat Piracy | In its quest to stamp out piracy, the MPAA continues to evolve its anti-piracy strategies and tools.
It’s no secret that the movie industry group often hires outsiders to track down pirates, but it’s now also recruiting fresh blood to bring... |
| Jul 9, 2015 | MPAA Wants to Kill Domain Name Privacy, For Some | A new ICANN proposal currently under review suggests various changes to how WHOIS protection services should operate.
The plans have raised concerns among registrars and consumer organizations who warn that it may put an end to private doma... |
| May 15, 2015 | Mega Rolls Out Legal Heavyweights to Refute Piracy Claims | In September 2014, NetNames published a report titled Behind The Cyberlocker Door: A Report How Shadowy Cyberlockers Use Credit Card Companies to Make Millions. It accused New Zealand-based cloud-storage site Mega of being a “cyberlocker” a... |
| Apr 20, 2015 | MPAA Strategized On How To 'Tell The Positive Side' Of Internet Censorship | Back in December, when the Sony emails first leaked, we wrote a detailed post about the bizarre views of the MPAA on site blocking, in that it was absolutely obsessed with putting site blocking in place while admitting it didn’t understand ... |
| Apr 17, 2015 | Leaked Sony emails show MPAA’s opposition to fair use, confirms users are viewed as thieves | Yesterday, Wikileaks announced that it had compiled a searchable archive of the emails that leaked from Sony last fall. That effort is already bearing fruit. The uncovered paper trail offers a window into the difference between what the MPA... |
| Apr 17, 2015 | Chris Dodd's Email Reveals What MPAA Really Thinks Of Fair Use: 'Extremely Controversial' | Two years ago, we were among those who noted how odd it was to see the MPAA in court arguing in favor of fair use, since the MPAA tends to argue against fair use quite frequently. The legal geniuses at the MPAA felt hurt by our post and som... |
| Apr 8, 2015 | Popcorn Time app for streaming video torrents launches on iOS, no jailbreak required | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Popcorn Time, an app for streaming video torrents, is now available for iOS. The app has technically been available for iOS before, but... |
| Apr 8, 2015 | Popcorn Time app for streaming video torrents launches on iOS, no jailbreak required | Popcorn Time, an app for streaming video torrents, is now available for iOS. The app has technically been available for iOS before, but it required jailbreaking your device first.
As of today’s version 1.2 beta release, that’s no longer the... |
| Mar 7, 2015 | Google Keeps Rejecting Hollywood’s Broad Takedown Requests | The MPAA and Google are not on speaking terms, to say the least.
In recent years the Hollywood group has pushed Google and other search engines to increase their anti-piracy efforts.
This prompted the search giant to filter certain keywords... |
| Feb 27, 2015 | MPAA Pushes For ICANN Policy Changes to Target “Pirate” Domains | The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is the main oversight body for the Internet’s global domain name system.
Among other things, ICANN develops policies for accredited registrars to prevent abuse and illegal use ... |
| Feb 2, 2015 | MPAA's Lies About Films Being Available Online Easily Debunked In Seconds | Stan McCoy was, until recently, the lead negotiator on “intellectual property” for the US Trade Representative — making him the main guy behind ACTA and the horrific intellectual property sections of the TPP and TTIP agreements. Then, last ... |
| Feb 1, 2015 | Hollywood’s Release Delays Breed Pirates | Hollywood has a message to all those pirates who keep making excuses to download and stream films illegally.
“You have no excuse.”
The major movie studios have done enough to make their content legally available, launching thousands of conv... |
| Dec 18, 2014 | Google is pissed at the MPAA for secretly trying to revive SOPA and going after the search giant | The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) might not quite be dead, according to recent Sony email leaks, and Google is concerned about that.
“We are deeply concerned about recent reports that the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) led a s... |
| Dec 16, 2014 | MPAA Knows It Doesn't Understand SOPA-Style Site Blocking, But Has Decided It's The Answer | While I still think the biggest story to come out of the Sony hacks is the fact that the MPAA had a plan to fund investigations of Google by public officials to get negotiating leverage over the company, a lot of other interesting tidbits h... |
| Nov 16, 2014 | The Pirate Beacon Pimps TPB With Movie Trailers and Info | Many Pirate Bay users are avid movie fans, who use their favorite torrent site to discover and download fresh content.
Since not all titles immediately ring a bell, they often use third-party sites and services such as IMDb to find more inf... |
| Nov 3, 2014 | Disney And Google Partner Up For Disney Movies Anywhere Access On Google Play | Disney and Google have teamed up to let you watch Disney, Pixar and Marvel movies on any device via Google Play.
“We want to make it easy for movie fans to enjoy all of their past and future digital purchases across all of their devices,” s... |
| Oct 30, 2014 | MPAA tells Google Glass users: We are watching you and we will call the cops | Nicole Arce, Tech Times 30 October 2014, 11:10 pm
It has generally been considered "unsociable" to wear Google Glass in many public places, but the film and theater industry is taking an official step to ban moviegoers from using ... |
| Oct 30, 2014 | MPAA And Movie Theaters Issue A Complete Ban On Google Glass, Because They 'Have A Long History Of Welcoming Tech Advances' | There are days when you wonder what life must be like as a PR person for the MPAA. I mean, it must take an extraordinary amount of either cognitive dissonance or will power to avoid bursting out laughing at writing the opening sentence like... |
| Oct 29, 2014 | Movie theaters ban Google Glass, wearables to stop illegal recording | Quinten Plummer, Tech Times 29 October 2014, 08:10 pm
As Google Glass is capable of capturing video at 720p and syncing recording content from its 16 GB of storage space into Google Cloud, the National Association of Theater Owners and the ... |
| Oct 29, 2014 | MPAA/NATO ban Google Glass in theaters | Now you'll have to find another way to get a shaky bootleg with bad audio
Welcome to your weekly edition of “This is a Thing People Do?” Today, we talk about the MPAA’s ban on Google Glass—because apparently, this is a thing people do. Like... |
| Sep 30, 2014 | MPAA Tries To Ignore The Fact That The Study It Paid For Reveals Very Few Top Films Are Available On Netflix | One of the key points that many people have been making for decades is that copyright infringement likely wouldn’t be such a big problem if they actually made works more available in convenient and reasonable ways. This was never an excuse ... |
| Jul 2, 2014 | 'Expendables 3' Is PG-13. Will The Softer Rating Help Or Hurt Its Box Office? | As of yesterday afternoon, what had merely been "threatened" by Sylvester Stallone has been confirmed. The third entry in the Expendables franchise, the series that brings together various 1980's and 1990's action icons to blow st... |
| Apr 9, 2014 | Sue You! Hollywood movie giants take Megaupload to court… | By Contributor
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| Mar 28, 2014 | Piracy Continues Killing The Movie Business To New Record Highs | So, earlier this week, the MPAA came out with its annual report that shows that once again, its box office take hit new record highs. This same thing happens basically every year, so we almost didn’t cover it at all this year. It’s kind of ... |
| Mar 26, 2014 | Piracy notwithstanding, MPAA enjoys a “very strong year”—again | Photo by Ronald Hennessy reader comments 46 with 33 posters participating
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| Mar 26, 2014 | MPAA: Moviegoers Use More ‘Piracy-Enabling’ Smartphones | The MPAA just released their latest box-office statistics. Despite the continuing threat of online piracy the numbers once again show an increase in revenue worldwide, up to a record-breaking $35.9 billion in 2013.
In addition to the revenu... |
| Oct 22, 2013 | As MPAA Insists TV Piracy Is So Harmful, Breaking Bad Creator Explains How Piracy Helped | At this point, it’s amazing how tone deaf the MPAA remains about the impact of people downloading TV shows. Just a few days ago, the MPAA posted a silly blog post arguing that people getting copies of The Walking Dead from unauthorized sour... |
| Oct 16, 2013 | Policy Research Chief Blasts TorrentFreak Piracy Research, But Why? | Using TorrentFreak figures as a basis for their analysis, public policy researchers at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center launched a website yesterday which considers whether Hollywood’s business model of not making content widely av... |
| Oct 8, 2013 | Hollywood Attacks Scholars Who Deny The Evils of Piracy | In recent months the MPAA has made a habit of attacking every paper which suggests that piracy may not actually be that big of a problem after all.
While the movie industry group often raises valid points, the critique is also one-sided. Mu... |
| Sep 21, 2013 | Motion Picture Association of America blames Google for online piracy | Piracy is a problem, a big problem. A few days ago I wrote about the consequences of piracy and the fact that it is far more than just the copyright holder who is affected. While I believe that piracy should be viewed as something other tha... |
| Sep 18, 2013 | Phoenix Center Criticizes “Poorly Designed” Megaupload Study | Last month we covered a new study from European researchers which revealed that the Megaupload shutdown had a negative effect on the box office revenues of smaller films.
The researchers wrote a detailed report using weekly data from 10,272... |
| Sep 1, 2013 | MPAA Criticizes Piracy Study Because It Doesn’t Like The Results | Last week we covered a new study from European researchers which revealed that the Megaupload shutdown had a negative effect on the box office revenues of smaller films.
The researchers wrote a detailed report using weekly data from 10,272 ... |
| Aug 23, 2013 | Megaupload Shutdown Hurt Smaller Films, Helped Blockbusters | It is no secret that the MPAA was one of the instigators of the Megaupload investigation, which ultimately led to the shutdown of the company January last year.
According to the Hollywood studios the file-hosting site kept people away from ... |
| Aug 4, 2013 | MPAA Recruits ‘Internet Analyst’ to Spy on Social Networks and Forums | With roughly 200 employees the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is a thorn in the side of Internet pirates all over the world.
The group has been credited as the main instigator of the Megaupload shutdown and is on a crusade to ... |
| Apr 19, 2013 | MPAA Pretends To Be A Regular Defender Of Fair Use; The Evidence Suggests Otherwise | We recently wrote about a case in which the MPAA signed onto an amicus brief arguing in favor of fair use, noting that it wasn’t something you saw everyday (even if the MPAA just signed onto a brief written by some Stanford fair use experts... |
| Mar 19, 2013 | MPAA: Pirates Can’t Hijack Freedom of Expression | Last Thursday brought another setback for Pirate Bay co-founders Peter Sunde and Fredrik Neij.
The pair asked the European Court of Human Rights (EHCR) to look at their case, arguing that the Swedish verdict in their criminal trial violated... |
| Mar 1, 2013 | MPAA Revenue Grows, Chris Dodd Gets $2.4 Million | Last year we asked whether the MPAA was dying but today we can report that’s most certainly not the case.
The MPAA’s latest tax filing to the IRS was published this week, covering the fiscal year 2011. Despite the long reporting delay, the ... |
| Feb 15, 2013 | MPAA says Chinese box office receipts reached new record: $2.75B in 2012 | reader comments 65 with 32 posters participating
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| Feb 15, 2013 | Chris Dodd Sounding Like A Broken Recording Industry | Ever since the failure of SOPA, MPAA boss Chris Dodd has been making the rounds, giving the same damn stump speech over and over again. We’ve reported on it before, but he’s done it again, this time at the National Press Club. As the transc... |
| Dec 31, 2012 | The 5 Most Pivotal Moments For Digital Music In 2012 | 2012 was a big year for music. No, I’m not talking about Adele, Call Me Maybe or the Tupac hologram. The big news this year were the shifts at the intersection of music and technology that occurred as the industry continued to figure out it... |
| Dec 17, 2012 | MPAA: Millions Of DMCA Takedowns Proves That Google Needs To Stop Piracy | The delusions of the MPAA are really impressive sometimes. For years, they’ve been pushing to make search engines like Google liable for blocking sites they don’t like. That was a key provision in SOPA — that it would force “information loc... |
| Dec 5, 2012 | MPAA: Megaupload Shutdown Was Massive Success | Responding to a request from the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR), the MPAA has submitted a new list of “notorious markets” they believe promote illegal distribution of movies and TV-shows.
The document dates back to September b... |
| Aug 24, 2012 | MPAA Pretends 'Offering Something' Is The Same Thing As 'Offering What People Want' | We recently wrote about David Pogue’s article highlighting how the movie industry’s failure to embrace what technology allows is a huge cause of infringement, and the industry still doesn’t seem to get that. In response, in typically tone d... |
| Aug 23, 2012 | MPAA [Wrongly] Downplays Hollywood’s Role In Keeping Piracy Alive | Over the years we have published dozens of articles on the reasons why people choose to pirate media. Time and time again “availability” comes out as one of the main motivations in both surveys and anecdotal reports.
Yesterday David Pogue h... |
| Aug 14, 2012 | Война с пиратами: понарошку или всерьез? | Anonymous 14 августа 2012, 17:31 Война с пиратами: понарошку или всерьез?
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| Jul 3, 2012 | Kim Dotcom: Joe Biden Ordered the Megaupload Shutdown | When Megaupload was raided in January, questions were raised as to why the U.S. Government acted so aggressively against a company that seemingly played by the rules.
It’s no secret that the MPAA provides the authorities with “leads” for cr... |
| Jun 17, 2012 | Going to the movies a ‘frequent source of entertainment’ for only 3% of Americans: survey | Only a very small percentage of US consumers see going to the movies as a frequent activity, according to the results of a new survey.
Just 3% of US consumers characterized going to the movies as a “frequent source of entertainment,” accord... |
| May 24, 2012 | BitTorrent Traffic Booms Due to “Licensing Challenges” | Over the years we have been following various reports on Internet traffic changes, specifically in relation to BitTorrent. One of the emerging trends is BitTorrent and P2P traffic as a whole losing its share of total Internet traffic, in th... |
| May 22, 2012 | Why Hollywood Is Doomed: It Takes Sensible Advice Like 'Make Good Movies' And Turns It Into A Screed About Piracy | Last week, Rob ‘Cmdrtaco’ Malda (and, can I just say that I think it’s awesome the Washington Post allows Rob to keep “Cmdrtaco” in his byline?) wrote a perfectly reasonable (perhaps even tame) column with the admittedly inflammatory title ... |
| May 21, 2012 | Chris Dodd Says MPAA Is On The Wrong Track; We Agree | Over at the Cannes Film Festival, MPAA boss Chris Dodd apparently told Variety that the MPAA is “on the wrong track” when it calls infringement “theft.” |