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Zediva Is Dead After MPAA Gets Its Way | Hollywood Kills Another Internet Innovation

Another day, another innovative use of the Internet to deliver content to paying customers is killed by Hollywood. Because piracy is...
Dave Parrack
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The Top 10 Most Pirated Movies On BitTorrent Suggest Hollywood and MPAA Sorely Mistaken

Movie piracy is all bad, right? No good can come from it, right? If a movie makes it onto BitTorrent (as...
Dave Parrack
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MPAA Infographic Twists Piracy Figures, Badly

Hollywood is struggling to transition from the past to the present, to a time when the Internet was but a sci-fi...
Dave Parrack
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MPAA War On Piracy Becomes ‘Content Protection’ | No Attempt At Improving Legal Alternatives

What do you do if your current policy is failing to pay dividends? Change your strategy and try something new or...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

X-Men Origins: Wolverine Leaks On The Internet | MPAA and FBI Are Investigating

X-Men Origins: Wolverine has leaked on the Internet a month before it is officially released. Clearly a serious breach of the...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Did the MPAA Secretly Kill Peekvid? | Video Linking Site Disappears Due To “Server Fees”

Peekvid – Links But No Hosting Peekvid, a website that indexed television content and provided links to the videos on other...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

IsoHunt Lawsuit Sends Message to CRIA, RIAA, MPAA & More – Linking is Legal

Should a site be held accountable for merely linking to pirated material? IsoHunt thinks not, and is taking its case to...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

MPAA Legal Movie Download Site a Wasted Effort | DRM & Over-Pricing Needs to Be Addressed

The MPAA has had a slight change of focus and now wants to educate instead of irritate with a central website...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

MPAA Data About Illegal Movie Downloading From University Campuses Inaccurate

The MPAA is rapidly catching up with the RIAA in terms of blindly and blatantly pushing fot their business models to...
Gigi Sohn
2 min read

TorrentSpy Falls To The Power Of The MPAA | Tampering With Evidence Is Never A Good Idea

The MPAA is becoming increasingly like the RIAA, in its attempts at going after organisations, and individuals, who share (or allow...
Paul Glazowski
1 min read

Torrentspy Versus the MPAA: The Story Goes On | Now The Gun For Hire Hacker Talks

There were a bunch of stories a while ago about TorrentSpy and the bunch of seemingly mixed signals that were routinely...
Paul Glazowski
1 min read

TorrentSpy Blocks All Searches From Within The United States – MPAA Influence?

BitTorrent uses the P2P architecture but build upon it while blurring the already unclear legal lines. The growth in the popularity...
Michael Garrett
1 min read

MahTV Shutdown by the MPAA

MahTV, one of the many sites that list pirate TV episodes available on video sharing sites like YouTube, received a Cease...
Chris Tew
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GEMA – The RIAA and MPAA of Europe target YouTube and MySpace

The RIAA is definitely one of the most hated organizations among internet users along with the MPAA for frequently preventing people...
Chris Tew
1 min read

Is Online Streaming Availability To Blame For Movie Piracy? Research Suggests It Could Be

Do people pirate things because they’re cheap and want to get whatever they can for free? Or is the practice less...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Watch Robotics;Notes Full Episodes Online | Season 1 Streaming Video & Torrent Search

Robotics;Notes Synopsis The anime Robotics;Notes is based on the Japanese computer game.Robotics;Notes follows a high school robotics club that needs to...
Danny Djeljosevic
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Sony Music Boss Loves YouTube, Hates GEMA

Wait, what? There’s a music label executive who thinks the Internet is a force for good? Wonders will never cease. Unfortunately...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Piracy Does Not Harm Hollywood Box Office Receipts, But Delayed International Releases Do

Hollywood will, and has been for many years now, tell us all that piracy is the big, bad wolf that is...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

NinjaVideo Co-Founder Hana Amal Beshara Imprisoned In Copyright Infringement Case

If you download movies from the Internet then there’s a small chance you’ll get caught. If you run a site offering...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

The Hurt Locker BitTorrent Lawsuit Dies, Someone Allegedly Forgets To Tell The Lawyers

The Hurt Locker BitTorrent lawsuit is dead, or at least it should be. Unfortunately someone forgot to tell the lawyers. or...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Gilberto Sanchez Imprisoned For Piracy | Man Who Pirated ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’ Jailed

If you’re the source for a pirated movie which then spreads across the Internet like wildfire you could face time in...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Sony Experimenting With Early Digital Sales To Tempt People To Buy Rather Than Rent Movies

What do you do when you see everyone renting your movies rather than buying them? Why, you offer buyers an advantage...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

YouTube Leading The Way In Globalizing Online Video – 60% Of Views From Non-English Speakers

Good ol’ YouTube. You may be filled with one or two (million) more funny animal videos than is necessary but you’re...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

MPA Wins Legal Blockade Of Newzbin2 As Hollywood Once Again Wastes Time and Money

The MPA, Hollywood, and the entertainment industry as a whole have scored a victory of sorts over illegal file-sharing in the...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Watch Transformers: Dark Of The Moon Online With Direct Streaming Option From Paramount

You can now stream Transformers: Dark Of The Moon directly from Paramount Pictures, in what the company is calling “an experiment.”...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

U.S. Senate Proposes Making Copyrighted Video Streaming As Illegal As Video Downloading

Many people are still using the Internet to gain access to copyrighted content without paying for it, despite the various industries’...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Spotify May Add Movies To The Music | Is Hollywood Starting To Accept Streaming Video?

Spotify has indirectly denied reports it’s planning to launch a movie streaming service to go with its music streaming service. But...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Lost Final Episodes Break BitTorrent Download Record | Piracy Is Clearly Still Alive And Well

Several file-sharing sites have been forced offline or forced to seriously limit their offerings in recent months thanks to the efforts...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

2010 Oscars Best Picture – District 9 Beats Avatar, The Hurt Locker In Pirating Terms

The 2010 Academy Awards are being held tonight, and Avatar and The Hurt Locker are the front-runners for the coveted ‘Best...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Apple Seeking Lower TV iTunes Prices As It Prepares To Launch Tablet PC – iSlate or iPad

As Apple prepares to launch its next big thing in the Apple Tablet, it’s reportedly keen to strike a deal with...
Dave Parrack
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