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Modemac
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Fri Nov 05, 2004 5:24 pm Post subject:
Movie studios prepare to sue file uploaders |
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Source: Internet Movie Database
"The MPAA warned Wednesday that anyone who uploads a movie onto the
Internet to share with users of peer-to-peer networks may face the
same kind of copyright infringement lawsuit that the music industry
has brought against record pirates. Published reports said that the
MPAA is expected to file its first lawsuits as early as today
(Thursday). The move follows a campaign by the movie industry to
discourage online piracy with MTV-type video announcements in movie
theaters comparing it to shoplifting videos in a store. Still, Eric
Garland, head of Big Champagne, an Internet company that monitors
movie downloading, suggested that the problem might be exaggerated. In
an interview with today's Los Angeles Times, Garland said: 'Most
people won't even know of anyone who has used the Internet to download
Hollywood fare without permission, much less do it themselves. ...
This is truly an extremely early-adopter fringe activity.'"
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Zapanaz
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Fri Nov 05, 2004 9:25 pm Post subject:
Re: Movie studios prepare to sue file uploaders |
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On 5 Nov 2004 04:24:53 -0800, modemac@modemac.com (Modemac) wrote:
| Quote: | Source: Internet Movie Database
"The MPAA warned Wednesday that anyone who uploads a movie onto the
Internet to share with users of peer-to-peer networks may face the
same kind of copyright infringement lawsuit that the music industry
has brought against record pirates. Published reports said that the
MPAA is expected to file its first lawsuits as early as today
(Thursday). The move follows a campaign by the movie industry to
discourage online piracy with MTV-type video announcements in movie
theaters comparing it to shoplifting videos in a store. Still, Eric
Garland, head of Big Champagne, an Internet company that monitors
movie downloading, suggested that the problem might be exaggerated. In
an interview with today's Los Angeles Times, Garland said: 'Most
people won't even know of anyone who has used the Internet to download
Hollywood fare without permission, much less do it themselves. ...
This is truly an extremely early-adopter fringe activity.'"
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Well heck, what a good idea!
When television first started proliferating in the fifties it hurt the
movie studios badly, a lot of large old studios went bankrupt. The
fools, they should have just sued people for watching TV!
That's how you deal with a new technology and accompanying changes to
your market's demands! Stop it from happening! That damned
technology!
For that matter, Ned Ludd could have saved himself a lot of trouble by
just suing people for wearing clothes produced by automation.
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and seal up both ends and then put it on a truck and take it to another city, boy, I don't know what to tell
you.
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Mark W
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Fri Nov 05, 2004 11:20 pm Post subject:
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That's how you deal with a new technology and accompanying changes to
your market's demands! Stop it from happening! That damned
technology!
For that matter, Ned Ludd could have saved himself a lot of trouble by
just suing people for wearing clothes produced by automation.
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Banks could simply sue bank robbers instead of calling the Police! |
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Paul E. Jamison
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Sat Nov 06, 2004 3:20 am Post subject:
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"Mark W" <s@o> wrote in message
news:418bc478$1_1@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com...
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That's how you deal with a new technology and accompanying changes to
your market's demands! Stop it from happening! That damned
technology!
For that matter, Ned Ludd could have saved himself a lot of trouble by
just suing people for wearing clothes produced by automation.
Banks could simply sue bank robbers instead of calling the Police!
Oh, dear, this is starting to sound positively Libertarian. |
Paul |
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Mutley
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Sat Nov 06, 2004 8:12 am Post subject:
Re: Movie studios prepare to sue file uploaders |
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modemac@modemac.com (Modemac) wrote:
| Quote: | Source: Internet Movie Database
"The MPAA warned Wednesday that anyone who uploads a movie onto the
Internet to share with users of peer-to-peer networks may face the
same kind of copyright infringement lawsuit that the music industry
has brought against record pirates. Published reports said that the
MPAA is expected to file its first lawsuits as early as today
(Thursday). The move follows a campaign by the movie industry to
discourage online piracy with MTV-type video announcements in movie
theaters comparing it to shoplifting videos in a store. Still, Eric
Garland, head of Big Champagne, an Internet company that monitors
movie downloading, suggested that the problem might be exaggerated. In
an interview with today's Los Angeles Times, Garland said: 'Most
people won't even know of anyone who has used the Internet to download
Hollywood fare without permission, much less do it themselves. ...
This is truly an extremely early-adopter fringe activity.'"
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Bush another 4 years and the MPAA is jumping for joy. 4 Mores years
to do what we like and the GVT won't interfere and we can bribe some
Republican senators and get all sorts of new draconian laws passed in
the name of IP and copy right protection.. |
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Specialk
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Sat Nov 06, 2004 9:07 am Post subject:
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Mutley wrote:
| Quote: | Bush another 4 years and the MPAA is jumping for joy. 4 Mores years
to do what we like and the GVT won't interfere and we can bribe some
Republican senators and get all sorts of new draconian laws passed in
the name of IP and copy right protection..
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I disagree. The Republican party's pets are defense companies, oil
companies, and conservative christian groups. The Democratic party's
pets are minority groups and the entertainment industry.
The DMCA (spit!) was passed in 1998, during the Clinton administration. |
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charsand
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Mon Nov 08, 2004 8:06 pm Post subject:
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Specialk <noone@invalid.address> wrote in message news:<n6Yid.12$xf6.4144@news.abs.net>...
| Quote: | Mutley wrote:
Bush another 4 years and the MPAA is jumping for joy. 4 Mores years
to do what we like and the GVT won't interfere and we can bribe some
Republican senators and get all sorts of new draconian laws passed in
the name of IP and copy right protection..
I disagree. The Republican party's pets are defense companies, oil
companies, and conservative christian groups. The Democratic party's
pets are minority groups and the entertainment industry.
The DMCA (spit!) was passed in 1998, during the Clinton administration.
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read this last week in the Hollywood Reporter-I wonder what the
ramifications of downloading will be?
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Internet to share with users of peer-to-peer networks may face the
same kind of copyright infringement lawsuit that the music industry
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