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MPAA revamping antipiracy strategy
The MPAA appears to be gearing up for a change in the way they fight file sharing. Two leaders of the movie industry trade group's antipiracy ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/20035.cfm - 22 October 2009

Songwriter groups want downloads classified as public performance
ASCAP and BMI, the two major US agencies that collect music performance royalties, are pushing to establish new royalties from online music ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/19459.cfm - 19 September 2009

MPAA again seeks SOC waiver from FCC
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has filed another request for the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) to give a waiver on ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/19168.cfm - 3 September 2009

The Pirate Bay is back, after Swedish take down
Yesterday, the large public torrent tracker The Pirate Bay was taken down by Swedish police, and many users believed it was the end of the site, for good. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/19044.cfm - 25 August 2009

Judge blocks sale of RealDVD
A federal Judge has stung RealNetworks badly by issuing a preliminary injunction preventing the company from selling its RealDVD software, which ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/18863.cfm - 12 August 2009

Stephen Fry defends non-commercial piracy
Stephen Fry, the popular actor, author and current gadget blogger has spoken out about piracy this week, defending non-commercial piracy and ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/18461.cfm - 14 July 2009

RealNetworks accuses MPAA of anti-competitive practices
RealNetworks has asked a Federal judge for permission to add an antitrust complaint against the MPAA to their existing lawsuit against the the ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/17984.cfm - 18 May 2009

MPAA promotes Cam copies for college professors
As the Library of Congress considers requests for exemptions to the DMCA, as they do every three years, the MPAA is focusing on reversing a ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/17909.cfm - 9 May 2009

Camcorder pirates busted recording Hannah Montana movie
Gerardo Arellano and his wife, Maribel Fernandez, both 32, were arrested after being caught by police officers recording the Hannah Montana ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/17593.cfm - 15 April 2009

RealDVD lawsuit finally gets court date
In September, RealNetworks launched RealDVD, a $30 USD software application that allows users to make a copy of their DVDs and it play it back on their PCs. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/17460.cfm - 5 April 2009

RealNetworks speaks out about RealDVD lawsuit
In September, RealNetworks launched RealDVD, a $30 USD software application that allows users to make a copy of their DVDs and it play it back on their PCs. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/17395.cfm - 28 March 2009

'Three strikes' laws will be expensive for ISPs
According to new reports coming out of France, any ISP willing to join the RIAA in its "three strikes" your out laws against piracy will have ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/17186.cfm - 7 March 2009

Audio from Pirate Bay trial to be streamed online
On February 16 the trial of Fredrik Neij, Per Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde, and Carl Lundström is set to begin in Sweden. The four men are charged ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/16959.cfm - 12 February 2009

TorrentSpy set to appeal MPAA lawsuit
Once one of the most popular public torrent trackers in the United States, TorrentSpy now sits, defunct, after being ordered to pay a $110 million ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/16892.cfm - 5 February 2009

UK Film Board's new website finds legal releases
In an attempt to fight movie piracy the UK Film Council has set up a website aimed at helping consumers find legal content. FindAnyFilm.com ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/16816.cfm - 30 January 2009

Fanedit.org facing litigation from MPAA
Fanedit.org, the most popular "FanEdit" site on the Web, has recently announced that after two years of being online, they have received a DMCA ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/16084.cfm - 23 November 2008

MPAA: Court rules against Chinese DVD player manufacturer
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has announced that once again a court has ruled against a DVD player manufacturer for violations ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/15843.cfm - 4 November 2008

Hollywood suit against RealDVD meant to stifle innovation, says EFF
According to the EFF, the recent Hollywood suit against RealDVD is nothing more than a smokescreen aimed not at piracy but instead at stifling innovation. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/15643.cfm - 11 October 2008

Restraining order on RealDVD stays in place
Two days ago we reported that Real's new legal DVD ripper, RealDVD, was temporarily not available, but it appears now that the restraining order ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/15617.cfm - 8 October 2008

Pirate Bay trial delayed at least a couple of months
The Stockholm District Court has delayed the upcoming trial against the admins of the infamous torrent tracker The Pirate Bay, citing that gathering ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/15285.cfm - 29 August 2008

Louisiana man sentenced to one year for piracy
A Louisiana man has been sentenced to one year in prison by a federal judge today for pirating thousands of DVDs and CDs in his apartment. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/15211.cfm - 24 August 2008

Motion Picture Association part of huge piracy crackdown
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) hailed the results of Operation Takedown on Monday. The effort against piracy over the summer brought in ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/15161.cfm - 20 August 2008

Judge limits RIAA damage award for "Innocent Infringement"
Whitney Harper has already admitted to sharing files illegally on a P2P network when she was 16, just as the RIAA claims. But that didn't stop ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/15062.cfm - 11 August 2008

Mark Cuban speaks out about MPAA, piracy
Mark Cuban, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks and Chairman of HDNet has recently written an opinion piece in his blog about the ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/15047.cfm - 10 August 2008

The MPAA sues two more movie streaming sites
The MPAA has announced two new lawsuits against movie streaming sites, this time trying to get Fomdb.com and MovieRumor.com taken down for good. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/14960.cfm - 30 July 2008

MPAA planning website to find legal movies online
It looks like the MPAA has come up with a novel approach to getting consumers to stop downloading illegal movies on the internet. Well novel ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/14937.cfm - 28 July 2008

MPAA hired hacker to 'spy' on The Pirate Bay
According to new court documents, it appears that the MPAA hired a hacker to reveal the identities of the administrators of the infamous torrent ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/14922.cfm - 27 July 2008

DreamStream clarifies: no MPAA endorsement
In the past few days reports have come out that the MPAA was endorsing the use of a new streaming video system which utilizes 2048 bit encryption. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/14734.cfm - 8 July 2008

MPAA approves "military strength" encryption for video streaming
The MPAA has approved the use of DreamSteam "military strength" 2048-bit encryption to protect online video streaming content in an effort to ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/14716.cfm - 7 July 2008

EliteTorrents administrator found guilty
According to a Department of Justice press statement, Daniel Dove, administrator for the defunct EliteTorrents torrent tracker has been found ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/14639.cfm - 28 June 2008

EFF shoots down "making available" argument in Jammie Thomas case
Last week we told you about briefs filed both for and against Jammie Thomas in her quest to get a new trial for alleged copyright violations ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/14574.cfm - 23 June 2008

IsoHunt adds thousands of authorized albums
IsoHunt, the public torrent site currently in legal trouble with the MPAA, has announced that it has made a new partnership with Creative Commons ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/14561.cfm - 22 June 2008

MPAA to judge: We don't need no stinking proof
The MPAA is arguing in a legal brief that plaintiffs should be allowed to collect hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages with no proof ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/14554.cfm - 21 June 2008

MPAA accuses laser printer of illegal file sharing
Since the RIAA first begain their campaign against illegal file sharing on P2P networks there has been intense debate over the methods used ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/14371.cfm - 6 June 2008

Former OiNK user gets arrested
According to TorrentFreak, British police have arrested a former user of the private torrent tracker OiNK for uploading and seeding a single ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/14311.cfm - 31 May 2008

MediaDefender's illegal tactics take down legal video site
MediaDefender, a company best known for their work for the MPAA has apparently admitted to being responsible for a massive Denial of Service ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/14288.cfm - 30 May 2008

MPAA goes after Newzbin
The premier Usenet indexing site Newzbin has announced that it is now under attack from the MPAA and it seems the the service will either have ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/14285.cfm - 29 May 2008

MPAA wins case against ShowStash and Cinematube
In a not so shocking decision, a jury has awarded the MPAA around $4 million USD in fines from the companies ShowStash.net and Cinematube.net. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/14221.cfm - 24 May 2008

Los Angeles thinks piracy is a “public nuisance”
Citing “minor input” from the MPAA and RIAA, the Los Angeles County government has now added piracy to its definition of “public nuisance", ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/13917.cfm - 11 May 2008

TorrentSpy will not be paying $110 million USD fine
Just days after being hit with one of the largest fines in copyright infringement history, a lawyer for the now dead torrent search engine TorrentSpy ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/13914.cfm - 10 May 2008

The MPAA wants $15 Million from The Pirate Bay
The MPAA has announced that is suing the infamous torrent tracker The Pirate Bay for $15.4 million USD citing "damages suffered" from 4 movies ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/13895.cfm - 8 May 2008

RIAA representative forecasts a comeback for DRM
At the Digital Hollywood conference, where entertainment industry representatives are meeting to discuss technology and trends in digital content ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/13893.cfm - 8 May 2008

MPAA awarded $110 million in TorrentSpy suit
Just a few weeks ago BitTorrent site TorrentSpy was shut down by parent company Valance Media LLC, replaced with a message explaining that ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/13890.cfm - 8 May 2008

New York wants stricter punishments for film pirates
The New York Attorney General has proposed a new legislation this week, one that would inflict heaver penalties and punishments on "cammers", ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/13866.cfm - 6 May 2008

TorrentSpy shut down
TorrentSpy, formerly one of the most popular BitTorrent sites on the Internet, has been permanently shut down. After two years of court room ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/13401.cfm - 27 March 2008

BitTorrent site traffic sees impressive growth
According to TorrentFreak, torrent popularity and torrent site traffic continues to grow with every passing day despite heated efforts by anti-piracy ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/13330.cfm - 22 March 2008

Antigua to legalize US movie and music piracy?
In an effort to get back at the US for its interference with the small country's internet gambling operations, Antigua is threatening to make ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/13329.cfm - 22 March 2008

Iceland's largest torrent tracker facing permanent shutdown
Torrent.is, the largest torrent Tracker in Iceland, is facing a permanent shutdown and the probability that it will have to pay restitution ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/13316.cfm - 20 March 2008

Sorry MPAA, Hollywood box office hits new highs despite piracy
Despite massive campaigns to inform the public of the dangers of piracy and its effect on the world economies,the Motion Picture Association ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/13160.cfm - 7 March 2008

Torrent site isoHunt gets free AMD CPUs
The BitTorrent search engine isoHunt has received a couple of AMD's unreleased processors. According to a post at isoHunt.com forums, the site ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/12801.cfm - 4 February 2008

MPAA admits incorrectly estimating college piracy losses
The MPAA is now backing away from statistics they began using in 2005 as a bullet point in their legal assault on college campuses. The study ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/12661.cfm - 23 January 2008

WiHD 1.0 specification now official
Eight of the major high-definition product manufacturers out there have for some time been working on wireless baseband specifications for high-definition ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/12341.cfm - 3 January 2008

Japanese file-sharing increases 180%
According to results of an online survey, in a little over a year, the number of internet users file sharing in Japan has surged by 180 percent. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/12273.cfm - 25 December 2007

Judge rules against TorrentSpy
A federal judge has ruled against TorrentSpy and in favor of the MPAA, accusing the torrent site of tampering with evidence. The court found ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/12235.cfm - 20 December 2007

Update: MPAA CEO talks out about American film ban in China
In response to the news that China will be blocking American films, MPAA Chairman and CEO Dan Glickman released the following statement: ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/12210.cfm - 18 December 2007

Iceland’s biggest torrent site gets taken down
Iceland's largest torrent site, torrent.is has been shut down due to a coalition effort by a few European anti-piracy organizations. The organizations, ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/12011.cfm - 29 November 2007

MPAA lawyer defends COAA anti-P2P provision
MPAA Washington general Counsel Fritz Attaway doesn't see anything wrong with a proposed law that would require universities to provide students ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/11930.cfm - 21 November 2007

Copyright lobbyists push Presidential candidates for commitment
A letter from Washington D.C. based lobbying organization the Copyright Alliance to 17 Democratic and Republican U.S. Presidential candidates ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/11928.cfm - 21 November 2007

New bill proposed could punish file-sharing students
In a 700+ page document submitted before the US Congress, there is a bill that offers some interesting enlightenment as to how deep the MPAA ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/11781.cfm - 12 November 2007

MPAA denies connection to MediaDefender
Last month The Pirate Bay filed a lawsuit against some major players in the entertainment industry alleging that they were trying to corrupt ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/11689.cfm - 4 November 2007

MPAA joins Japanese companies in support for amending copyright law
The Motion Picture Association of America, along with an assortment of Japanese business organizations announced support for changes to Japan's ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/11599.cfm - 27 October 2007

MPAA hacker comes clean in interview
In an interview with Wired magazine, hacker Robert Anderson give details about his association with the MPAA, whom he says promised him money ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/11542.cfm - 22 October 2007

Lobbyists stage pro-copyright event in U. S. capitol
Last week, a copyright lobbying group called the Copyright Alliance held an expo in Washington DC that looked a little more like a three ring ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/11452.cfm - 14 October 2007

TorrentSpy traffic declines dramatically since US ban
According to Alexa stats, the MPAA seems to have a victory in regards to halting piracy caused by the once popular torrent site TorrentSpy. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/11387.cfm - 6 October 2007

MPAA sues sites for linking to pirated video
Cinematube.net and SSUpload are the most recent targets of lawsuits by the MPAA, claiming the two websites are liable for copyright infringement ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/11278.cfm - 28 September 2007

IsoHunt's trackers now blocked to US users
Due to their ongoing lawsuit from the MPAA, the admins at the popular torrent search engine IsoHunt will be blocking US visitors on their TorrentBox ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/11230.cfm - 24 September 2007

DRM provider says the technology isn't being used correctly
Talal Shamoon, CEO of a leading DRM provider, blames content owners for the public's intelerance for the technology. At the Digital Rights Strategies ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/11179.cfm - 20 September 2007

Piracy figures used to increase profitability for record labels
Finally giving evidence that P2P and piracy aren't as bad as the MPAA and other outlets would have you believe, according to the recent leaked ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/11175.cfm - 19 September 2007

MPAA wants ISP help in combating piracy
MPAA CEO Dan Glickman said at a seminar on Tuesday that the group was "deepening their relationship" with telephone, cable and Internet companies, ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/11162.cfm - 18 September 2007

Embarrassing MediaDefender emails distributed on Bittorent
MediaDefender, the company caught offering virus laden movie downloads, presumably on behalf of their client MPAA, has been embarrassed again ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/11148.cfm - 17 September 2007

MPAA downplays 'pirate party' groups
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), along with other trade organizations for the entertainment industry, has been pursuing Internet ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/11128.cfm - 15 September 2007

MPAA want to make movie camming a criminal offense in UK
After success in Canada, Italy, Japan and even somewhat in the US, the MPAA is continuing its world tour and moving on to the UK where it will ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/11030.cfm - 7 September 2007

Universal Music files infringement suit against Veoh
Universal Music Group is suing viral video site operator Veoh Networks for copyright infringement. The suit, which is similar to those YouTube ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/11022.cfm - 7 September 2007

Lucky and Flo hit the US
After becoming infamous for piracy busts in Malaysia and elsewhere around Asia, the DVD sniffing dogs Lucky and Flo have finally hit the United ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/10975.cfm - 4 September 2007

Hollywood still focused on piracy despite a record year
Despite concerns about the extent of piracy, the movie business has pulled in record revenues this summer, earning more than $4 billion in box ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/10942.cfm - 1 September 2007

Torrentspy must preserve data from 'RAM'
Even though we already reported recently that Torretspy blocked users from the United States to keep logs it is being forced to hand over to ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/10888.cfm - 29 August 2007

TorrentSpy no longer available to US users
Users logging in from the United States are no longer able to access TorrentSpy's torrent search engine and instead are redirected to a privacy notice. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/10856.cfm - 27 August 2007

Lucky and Flo are at it again
Lucky and Flo, the two trained dogs infamous for helping to bust pirates have been credited with another significant counterfeit disc piracy ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/10627.cfm - 5 August 2007

TorrentSpy advertises torrent client with malware
TorrentSpy, the public torrent tracker in the midst of a lawsuit from the MPAA is apparently advertising, even promoting fake torrent clients ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/10621.cfm - 4 August 2007

Documentary detailing music piracy is released as torrent
The producers of Good Copy, Bad Copy, a new documentary that analyzes the current state of global music piracy, have decided to release the ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/10620.cfm - 4 August 2007

uTorrent re-released as BitTorrent 6.0
Last year, BitTorrent Inc. purchased the very popular torrent client uTorrent scaring users that felt the client would soon become obsolete ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/10534.cfm - 29 July 2007

ShowStash sued by MPAA
In June, the MPAA sued both YouTVpc.com and Peekvid.com even though neither site actually hosts any of the copyrighted material on its servers. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/10403.cfm - 15 July 2007

Five would-be cammers arrested attempting to record Transformers
The MPAA and the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) announced that over the July 4th weekend, five would-be cammers were arrested ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/10366.cfm - 11 July 2007

Media Defender denies MiiVi accusations
A few days ago, we reported that the fake torrent site MiiVi was down after it was discovered it was a front for the MPAA to catch would-be pirates. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/10319.cfm - 8 July 2007

Sneaky MPAA-sponsored movie download site gives users Trojan horses
MiiVi, a video download site that linked to many movies has been taken offline after being discovered as a front for the MPAA to catch pirates. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/10294.cfm - 6 July 2007

MPAA sues Peekvid and YouTVPC
Today, the MPAA filed a lawsuit against both YouTVPC and Peekvid hoping to crack down on websites that allow users to view streaming TV shows ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/10196.cfm - 27 June 2007

MPAA unveils new anti-camcording posters for US theaters
The MPAA and the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) have unveiled their latest anti-camcording posters in an effort to curb piracy ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/10160.cfm - 23 June 2007

BREIN forces web hosting company to close torrent site
According to a BREIN press release, a court has ruled that a Dutch web hosting company, Leaseweb, must shut down a private torrent site, Everlasting.nu. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/10152.cfm - 21 June 2007

MPAA study shows film industry is back on course
According to the latest MPAA study, all-media revenue for 2006 was 8% higher than 2005, and reached $42.6 billion USD. The "all-media" references ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/10123.cfm - 18 June 2007

Piracy more serious than bank robbery, fraud and burglary?
According to NBC/Universal general counsel Rick Cotton, today's society is wasting its time battling crimes such as home burglary, bank robbery ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/10111.cfm - 16 June 2007

MPAA accuses TorrentSpy of withholding evidence
Yesterday, the MPAA accused the large torrent tracker site TorrentSpy of withholding evidence that was stored on the site's servers. TorrentSpy ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/10102.cfm - 15 June 2007

TorrentSpy ordered to log user activity for MPAA
TorrentSpy, a popular BitTorrent search engine, has been ordered to log the activities of its users. The order was made by federal Judge Jacqueline ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/10065.cfm - 11 June 2007

Canada introduces anti-piracy legislation
On Friday, Canada introduced a legislation that would criminalize camcording of films in theaters and make the crime punishable by up to five ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/9964.cfm - 2 June 2007

Japan criminalizes camcording
In January, the Japan and International Motion Picture Copyright Association (JIMCA), feeling pressure from American studios, submitted a statement ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/9855.cfm - 26 May 2007

MPAA makes another bold claim
In another amazingly bold statement, the MPAA has claimed that its efforts to prevent illegal recording of Spider-Man 3 gave it "a fair shot ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/9775.cfm - 20 May 2007

Copyright Alliance hopes to strengthen copyright laws
A new Copyright Alliance launched yesterday in Washington D.C. with a self-described goal of "promoting the value of copyright as an agent for ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/9759.cfm - 19 May 2007

Film piracy is now a misdemeanor in NYC
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently just signed a legislation that will upgrade film piracy from a simple violation with a $250 fine to a misdemeanor ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/9624.cfm - 6 May 2007

MPAA makes report about camcorded films
For the past few months, the MPAA has been claiming that Canada is a hotbed of piracy and that the country is the source of 50 percent of all ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/9623.cfm - 6 May 2007

Congress sends surveys to Universities over piracy concerns
US Congress has begun sending out "surveys" to the presidents of 19 leading Universities hoping to receive answers in regards to what the university ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/9604.cfm - 3 May 2007

The Pirate Bay to start pay site
The Pirate Bay, one of the most popular and well-known public torrent tracker sites has announced it will start a new music download site in ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/9584.cfm - 30 April 2007

U.S. adds 12 nations to its priority piracy watchlist
On Monday, the Bush administration added China, Russia and 10 other nations to its so-called priority piracy watchlist for failing to "sufficiently ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/9582.cfm - 30 April 2007

Jack Valenti dies at 85
Former White House aide and former president of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), Jack Valenti, has died aged 85. He had been ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/9551.cfm - 27 April 2007

MPAA's plans for the future
In an astonishing announcement by the MPAA at the LexisNexis conference this week, Dan Glickman has stated that the movie studios have fully ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/9537.cfm - 26 April 2007

Spider-man 3 DVDs hit streets of Beijing?
In China, a bootleg DVD of Spider-man 3 has hit the streets with a $1 price tag, premiering 2 weeks before the movie even debuts in the US. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/9516.cfm - 25 April 2007

ZPAV and police raid Polish University
For the past few months, Polish authorities have mounted an operation against a file sharing DC++ network situated on the campus of Koszalin ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/9487.cfm - 21 April 2007

Lucky and Flo move onto the Philippines
After having bounties placed on thier heads by Malaysian crime bosses last month and subsequently going into hiding, the MPAA's polycarbonate ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/9440.cfm - 17 April 2007

Movie and music anti-piracy agencies merge in Brazil
In a first for Latin America, the music and film industries in Brazil are coming together to combine their anti-piracy efforts. Apdif, which ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/9361.cfm - 11 April 2007

MPAA and RIAA also back US decision to file piracy case against China
The MPAA and RIAA have often blamed China as one of the main avenues of media piracy of US entertainment. The MPAA has gone so far as to say ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/9345.cfm - 10 April 2007

Malaysian pirates using chemical spray to mask DVD scent
In an update to our previous article here in which Malaysian pirates put out a bounty on MPAA sniffer dogs, the dogs have gone into hiding and ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/9287.cfm - 7 April 2007

MPAA to distribute anti-piracy brochures to schools and libraries
In another move to curb piracy in Asia, the MPAA has decided to distribute anti-piracy brochures to every school and library in Singapore. The ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/9285.cfm - 6 April 2007

Film industry set to break records for sales
Everyday, we hear stories coming from the MPAA arguing that the illegal downloading of movies is having terrible consequences on the movie industry. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/9284.cfm - 6 April 2007

Huge piracy ring busted in Brazil
According to the MPAA and IFPI, a police raid was conducted today in Sao Paulo, Brazil on 4 seperate locations that were used to manufacture ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/9249.cfm - 4 April 2007

Investigation into Pirate Bay raid is over
A few months ago we reported that the web hotel PRQ and The Pirate Bay were raided in Sweden. During the raid, the police not only confiscated ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/9242.cfm - 3 April 2007

DFC wants to help organize students against RIAA abuses
The Digital Freedom Campaign (DFC), an organization that was founded last fall by a few groups inlcuding EFF hopes to help educate students ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/9231.cfm - 3 April 2007

New bill would give federal funds to universities to fight p2p
Representative Ric Keller (R-FL) has proposed a new bill (HR 1689) called the "Curb Illegal Downloading on College Campuses Act of 2007" that ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/9220.cfm - 2 April 2007

MPAA lists the top 25 movie piracy Universities
Last week, the MPAA announced they supported the "Curb Illegal Downloading on College Campuses Act (2007)," and MPAA head Dan Glickman said ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/9218.cfm - 2 April 2007

Malaysian pirates put out bounty on sniffer dogs
Officials in Malaysia reported today that Malaysian movie pirates have placed a bounty on the heads of the two sniffer dogs who helped bust ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/9085.cfm - 22 March 2007

Students beware of cGrid
There's a new beast in the war pit against internet piracy, and it's name is cGrid. Developed by a group called Red Lambda, cGrid is set to ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/8943.cfm - 12 March 2007

US Senators pressure Canada on copyright laws
Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Joseph Harper, has received a letter from US senators Dianne Feinstein and John Cornyn, drawing attention to ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/8928.cfm - 10 March 2007

IIPA criticizes Canada over piracy
The International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) has criticized Canada for its failure to prevent piracy. The IIPA has seven members ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/8667.cfm - 14 February 2007

Movie piracy does nothing but rise
Despite many anti-piracy efforts in the United States, piracy of movies and other types of digital content is still rising sharply, despite ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/8551.cfm - 31 January 2007

MPAA launches assault on P2P
People in the peer-to-peer sharing scene shouldn't be the least bit unfamiliar with possibly one of the biggest name in Bit Torrent, Isohunt.com. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/8452.cfm - 18 January 2007

16 year old file sharer to get jail time
Stavanger Norway was the site of a P2P crack down in which a 16 year old boy was arrested and charged for operating a hub on the popular Direct ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/8348.cfm - 5 January 2007

Hitachi will change how you search for digital media
A small division within Hitachi has partnered with US digital home technology provider Blue Peach to offer the new NAS Digital Media Server. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/8322.cfm - 3 January 2007

Hollywood wins copyright suit in China
Hollywood movie studios have won a lawsuit in China over the unlawful posting of copyrighted movie clips on the Internet, according to the Motion ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/8286.cfm - 29 December 2006

BitTorrent Inc. acquires uTorrent
Bram Cohen of BitTorrent Inc. has announced that the company has acquired the increasingly popular µTorrent client. The announcement was made ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/8208.cfm - 7 December 2006

MPAA wants your privacy
A recent bill that was up in California legistation which would have banned the ability for companies to use "pretexting" practices to obtain ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/8184.cfm - 1 December 2006

Lawyer: RIAA wants to shut down the Internet
A lawyer defending Net users that have been sued by the music industry's lobby group, RIAA, claims that the evidence -- or actually the lack ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/8177.cfm - 30 November 2006

MPAA targets boy scouts with anti-piracy campaign
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has issued a press release announcing its latest battleplan in its war on movie piracy. The ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/8048.cfm - 21 October 2006

Dogs assist MPAA in war on movie piracy
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has found a new weapon in its battle against widespread movie piracy - a pair of DVD-sniffing ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7960.cfm - 22 September 2006

RIAA / MPAA bust major U.S. piracy gang
With the assistance of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) alongside the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), Police ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7938.cfm - 15 September 2006

Millionaire vows to challenge MPAA suit
Last November, software developer Shawn Hogan received a call from a lawyer representing Universal Pictures and the Motion Picture Association ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7764.cfm - 25 July 2006

Actual Letter Sent to Swedish Officials Prior to TPB Raid
Today's day and age is a glorious time to marvel in our own accomplishments. With the advent of the Internet, we have given birth to technological, ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7680.cfm - 20 June 2006

MPAA Wants to Blind Movie Pirates
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has been working closely with developers from the Georgia Institute of Technology to produce ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7679.cfm - 20 June 2006

US to Join Forces in Piracy War
After two solid years of lobbying by anti-piracy groups like RIAA and MPAA, someone in the US Congress has decided to listen. The two groups ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7665.cfm - 15 June 2006

MPAA enlists football legend Pelé in piracy fight
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has enlisted football legend Pelé to encourage fans to "score a goal against piracy". The footballer ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7647.cfm - 10 June 2006

In the Wake of The Pirate Bay
The file sharing community was shocked the morning of May 31, 2006 when it was announced that the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7610.cfm - 1 June 2006

Movie studios and producers accused of screenplay theft
When you hear the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) talk about the effects Internet piracy has on the global films industry, you ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7606.cfm - 31 May 2006

MPAA celebrates fall of The Pirate Bay
Just hours after popular BitTorrent Tracker ThePirateBay.org's servers were seized in a raid by Swedish police earlier today, the Motion Picture ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7605.cfm - 31 May 2006

TorrentSpy accuses MPAA of hiring hacker
The company behind popular Bittorrent search engine TorrentSpy has countersued the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), alleging that ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7583.cfm - 25 May 2006

FACT trains sniffer dogs to locate DVDs
The Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) is celebrating after successfully training two sniffer dogs, Lucky and Flo, to locate DVDs. The ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7543.cfm - 11 May 2006

Streamcast will take on RIAA and MPAA
This news is a few days old, but one of those items we can't have missing from our collection. Streamcast Networks has broken off settlement ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7476.cfm - 15 April 2006

MovieLink and CinemaNow offer legal movie downloads
MovieLink and CinemaNow have become the first two sources for legal movie downloads (not rental-based) in the United States. Universal, Twentieth ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7435.cfm - 3 April 2006

Torrentspy moves to dismiss MPAA suit
A popular BitTorrent search engine, Torrentspy, has filed a "Motion to Dismiss" a lawsuit brought against it by the Motion Picture Association ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7421.cfm - 29 March 2006

What if Presidents were using BitTorrent?
The guys at TorrentReactor requested that AfterDawn announce the launch of their latest humorous project, BushTorrent. What if Presidents ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7401.cfm - 21 March 2006

BitTorrent to open video download store
BitTorrent, a company who's popularity results from million of file sharers' use of its software, is soon to open a legal video download site. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7361.cfm - 2 March 2006

MPAA files lawsuits against BT, eD2K and NZB sites
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) again filed an array of lawsuits aimed at bringing down sites that can help thousands of Internet ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7355.cfm - 27 February 2006

MPAA sues auction pirates
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has filed seven lawsuits in Los Angeles federal court against online auctioneers who allegedly ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7334.cfm - 15 February 2006

Studios and tech companies together against P2P piracy?
Even though the number of P2P users connected to networks continues to rise despite litigation, and more and more BitTorrent sites pop up despite ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7333.cfm - 15 February 2006

MPAA: DRM is here to save consumers from piracy
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) boss Dan Glickman has a pretty radical view on why Digital Rights Management (DRM) and copy ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7309.cfm - 11 February 2006

MPAA files new lawsuits
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has filed more lawsuits against file sharers in the run up to the Academy Awards ceremony. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7304.cfm - 10 February 2006

NTL and BitTorrent sign deal
NTL and BitTorrent Inc. have signed a deal to test a new service that will let Internet users download movies and music videos legally. This ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7303.cfm - 10 February 2006

CBS may add programming to iTunes
CBS has confirmed that it is in talks with iTunes owner Apple Computer Inc., over the possibility of adding CBS programming to the current list ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7275.cfm - 5 February 2006

MPAA is accused of piracy
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has amusingly been accused of piracy for making an unauthorised copy of a documentary that ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7246.cfm - 25 January 2006

MPAA proposing legislation to tackle camcorder pirates
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is pushing legislation that would mean tougher penalties for individuals who record movies ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7153.cfm - 12 December 2005

BitTorrent and MPAA announce agreement
Dan Glickman, Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) Chairman and CEO and Bram Cohen, BitTorrent Founder and CEO, yesterday announced ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7054.cfm - 24 November 2005

BitTorrent user gets jail sentence
A man in Hong Kong has been sent to prison for copyright infringement for uploading copyrighted movies using BitTorrent. He was handed down ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7009.cfm - 7 November 2005

DVD Jon to work with Michael Robertson
DeCSS meets MP3.com? Well that's what the title of the news article would have been if this has happened a few years back. Norwegian infamous ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6962.cfm - 20 October 2005

MPAA targets fake movie download sites
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is hunting again, but this time not for file sharers or BitTorrent sites. This time the group, ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6948.cfm - 14 October 2005

P2P traffic putting enormous strain on Tor network
Tor, an anonymity tool from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is being misused by many file sharers to make their BitTorrent clients ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6945.cfm - 14 October 2005

BPI criticises Napster and Apple for advertising on 'pirate sites'
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has criticised both Apple and Napster for advertising their legal music download services on websites ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6944.cfm - 14 October 2005

First Annual Peer-to-Peer Litigation Summit
The Recording Industry vs. The People is reporting on the First Annual Peer to Peer litigation summit that will take place on November 3rd 2005. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6908.cfm - 7 October 2005

RIAA and MPAA join Internet2
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) have become the two latest members ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6819.cfm - 11 September 2005

DVD Jon unlocks encrypted NSC files
The infamous Jon Lech Johansen, aka DVD Jon has hacked encryption coding in Microsoft's Windows Media Player that may open content broadcasting ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6804.cfm - 5 September 2005

MPAA files lawsuits with data from P2P logs
Major Hollywood movie studios have filed another round of lawsuits against file sharers it alleges to have distributed copyrighted movies over ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6774.cfm - 26 August 2005

More MPAA lawsuits filed
Following the example of the recording industry, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has filed more lawsuits against file sharers ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6698.cfm - 3 August 2005

Supreme Court rules in favour of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in P2P case
In a major blow to technological innovation today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favour of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in a huge P2P case. Since the ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6571.cfm - 27 June 2005

Why all the fuss about Star Wars piracy?
This week, one of the biggest and most anticipated movies of the year opened in theatres all over the world. Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6457.cfm - 20 May 2005

MPAA sues six TV BitTorrent sites
MPAA has turned its attention to rapidly growing TV piracy and has sued six websites offering BitTorrent trackers for TV shows. The sites were ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6433.cfm - 13 May 2005

Movie Industry revenue booming despite piracy
If you can recall, the Motion Picture Association of America has been filing lawsuits against file sharers all over the United States and pushing ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6402.cfm - 5 May 2005

Supreme Court rejects InternetMovies.com case
The United States Supreme Court has denied to hear the InternetMovies.com vs. Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) case. This now sets ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6398.cfm - 5 May 2005

Police officers under investigation for MPAA payoffs
Two NYPD cops are being investigated by Internal Affairs for allegedly accepting cash payoffs from the Motion Picture Association of America ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6356.cfm - 22 April 2005

P2PUnite's Entertainment Industry boycott begins tomorrow
If you haven't already read about this, P2PUnite.net set out a week in April to get as many people not to buy entertainment goods or provide ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6355.cfm - 22 April 2005

InternetMovies.com takes MPAA fight to Supreme Court
Michael Jay Rossi, President of InternetMovies.com Inc. is turning to the Supreme Court in his fight against the MPAA for the wrongful shut ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6351.cfm - 22 April 2005

ESS DVD Copying chips lawsuit settled
Major Hollywood studios have settled a lawsuit against ESS Technology, a chipmaker that they accused of allowing its products to be used illegally ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6303.cfm - 14 April 2005

Global bandwidth use rises due to P2P
Last year, Internet users used up more bandwidth than ever, mainly due to the growing popularity of P2P networks and growing demand for video ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6298.cfm - 14 April 2005

Media companies target Internet2 P2P users
More than 400 college students will be sued for making thousands of copyrighted works available on an experimental network called Internet2. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6293.cfm - 13 April 2005

DVDR-Core owner set to stand up to MPAA
Alexander Hanff got a bit of a nasty shock last Saturday morning when he opened his front door only to be served with a lawsuit by Paramount, ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6213.cfm - 16 March 2005

James Bond box-set hunt leads U.S. and China to Shanghai
Laura Tunberg, a movie-studio attorney was browsing through eBay back in 2001 when a particular item caught her eye above all the rest. It was ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6187.cfm - 9 March 2005

Open source shields BitTorrent from legal attacks
The fact that Bram Cohen decided to make BitTorrent open source may be the biggest reason why the Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA) ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6186.cfm - 9 March 2005

LokiTorrent lawsuit was NO Hoax
We reported yesterday that Fraud claims were circulating about (former) LokiTorrent owner Ed Webber. Many people began questioning whether the ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6142.cfm - 26 February 2005

LokiTorrent Fraud claims circulating
More details about the LokiTorrent vs. MPAA case are being spread across the Internet and at the very least; they are quite disturbing for the ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6141.cfm - 25 February 2005

MPAA files more lawsuits against movie and TV series sharers
The Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA) has filed more lawsuits against P2P users it alleges to have traded illegal copies of major ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6139.cfm - 25 February 2005

Downloaders pay for movies too
There's an interesting article at nyunews.com written by Matt Buchanan that debunks the main claim made by the Motion Pictures Association of ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6136.cfm - 25 February 2005

Public Knowledge challenges anti- TV piracy efforts
The legal director of digital-rights advocacy group Public Knowledge, Mike Godwin, is challenging the new proposals to stop TV piracy and the ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6116.cfm - 22 February 2005

LokiTorrent shut down by MPAA
BitTorrent trading site, LokiTorrent.com has been shut down by the Motion Picture Association of America. LokiTorrent was gathering a legal ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6082.cfm - 11 February 2005

TV show piracy enters spotlight
On 26th November 2004 I wrote a news article about TV series downloading becoming more popular, and the MPAA calling it a serious threat. I ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6076.cfm - 9 February 2005

Bram Cohen fending off MPAA accusations
Bram Cohen, the creator of a revolutionary piece of software called BitTorrent, has to defend himself against claims from Hollywood. Cohen was ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6056.cfm - 7 February 2005

University student downloaders are not as evil as they seem
In the past year or so, we have read many stories about University students and downloading music. In my opinion, it seems the entertainment ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6055.cfm - 7 February 2005

RIAA & MPAA to target students from elite universities
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA) have both in the past launched lawsuit ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6040.cfm - 4 February 2005

RIAA sues another 717 P2P users
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has filed another 717 lawsuits against P2P users in the United States it alleges to distribute ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6011.cfm - 28 January 2005

MPAA launches second round of lawsuits
The Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA) has launched its second round of lawsuits against file sharers in the United States, it alleges ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6008.cfm - 28 January 2005

MPAA releases software for parents
The Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA) has released software for parents that scans a computer for video and audio files that are ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6005.cfm - 28 January 2005

LokiTorrent.com for sale at Sedo
The domain LokiTorrent.com is up for sale at Sedo.com. LokiTorrent is being sued by the Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA) and has ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6003.cfm - 28 January 2005

Supreme Court to hear P2P case
The United States Supreme Court said it will hear oral arguments in an ongoing dispute over the legality of filesharing. The entertainment industry ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5985.cfm - 22 January 2005

Lord_Anubis squashes ShareConnector rumors
Just as in the ShareReactor case, the closure of ShareConnector has been met by false rumors spread by individuals who just want the attention ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5943.cfm - 8 January 2005

Year 2004 -- evolution, not revolution
The year 2004 is coming to its end and its time to take a quick look at the major events in the digital multimedia world and also to our own ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5919.cfm - 1 January 2005

LokiTorrent vs. MPAA
The Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA) has continued its battle against BitTorrent sites that offer torrent files allowing users ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5912.cfm - 29 December 2004

InternetMovies.com may take MPAA to the Supreme Court
President of InternetMovies.com Inc, Michael Jay Rossi plans to ask the United States Supreme Court to review the case "Rossi vs. Motion Picture ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5910.cfm - 29 December 2004

Extinction event for BitTorrent web sites
The raids have definitely had an impact. The authorities have recently had their target on the sites offering BitTorrent links, busting down ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5897.cfm - 21 December 2004

MPAA to target movie sharing through BitTorrent
The Motion Pictures Association of America is to launch a legal attack on BitTorrent users who abuse the technology developed by Bram Cohen ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5881.cfm - 14 December 2004

Modified KiSS DVD players used by the MPAA for Oscar screening
Website MPC (MPEG Play Center) has published an interesting article about the technology used for the Oscar movie awards. The MPAA has been ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5848.cfm - 6 December 2004

P2P users move to TV-Series downloading?
It seems the MPAA has realized that the "new" major thing on P2P networks is to trade TV Series. This may seem a bit late to most of you as ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5821.cfm - 26 November 2004

Judge slows down MPAA lawsuits
A California Judge has slowed the MPAA's lawsuit campaign against P2P users. Apparently the movie studios have improperly bundled too many separate ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5820.cfm - 24 November 2004

Actor fined over Oscar screener piracy
US actor Carmine Caridi has been fined $300,000 for distributing screener copies of movies that were nominated for Oscars. Caridi, 70, handed ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5817.cfm - 24 November 2004

MPAA sets sights on Internet2 traffic
The Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA) is in talks with the Internet2 research consortium for two main reasons. The first of these ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5802.cfm - 19 November 2004

Downhill Battle takes aim at anti-p2p school curriculums
DownhillHillBattle.org announced two new project sites in the passed few days. The first site is aimed at kids and students in response to the ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5795.cfm - 17 November 2004

MPAA launches its attack against P2P users
After years of waiting on the sidelines, the Movie Picture Association of America finally followed the RIAA's path and launched its full-blown ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5792.cfm - 17 November 2004

Senate may vote on copyright bill
The US Senate may be voting on the Intellectual Property Protection Act (IPPA) this week. The bill combines aspects of several proposed copyright ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5790.cfm - 16 November 2004

StreamCast asks Supreme Court to reject RIAA/MPAA requests
StreamCast, which owns the Morpheus P2P Network has formally asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reject requests made by the Motion Pictures Association ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5774.cfm - 9 November 2004

P2P case to be tested in Supreme Court?
Hollywood movie studios and record companies have asked the United States Supreme Court to overturn an earlier ruling which found file sharing ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5680.cfm - 8 October 2004

Movie industry raids Icelandic P2P users
MPA's (MPA is the movie studios' international association, in which, the American MPAA is also member of) Icelandic arm, called SMAIS, has ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5655.cfm - 30 September 2004

U.S. House of Representatives votes to boost penalties for online piracy
The U.S. House of Representatives voted to boost penalties for online piracy. The Piracy Deterrence and Education Act (PDEA) will make it easier ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5643.cfm - 28 September 2004

Schwarzenegger deals serious blow to California file-sharers
Governor or California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has dealt a serious blow to file sharers in California by signing an Internet piracy bill that ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5622.cfm - 23 September 2004

LAPD busts DVD pirates
This week, the Los Angeles Police Department and the Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA) busted a major counterfeiting operation. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5557.cfm - 3 September 2004

BAFTA voters to get secure DVD players
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts will be supplying eligible voters with secure DVD players to prevent piracy. The academy have ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5541.cfm - 31 August 2004

Canadian ISP warns Bit Torrent users
It seems that Cogeco, a Canadian ISP has begun sending its users warnings about their activities on P2P networks. The strange fact is, the warnings ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5537.cfm - 31 August 2004

MPAA sues chipmakers
The MPAA has sued two chipmakers, Sigma Designs and MediaTek for allegedly selling DVD chips to companies that are breaking copy-protection ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5511.cfm - 24 August 2004

P2P networks not liable for copyright infringement
A federal appeals court has ruled that file sharing companies are not liable for copyright infringements carried out using their software products. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5496.cfm - 19 August 2004

MPAA gets money from 321 Studios to fight piracy
MPAA has announced that it has reached a settlement with the late DVD backup software vendor 321 Studios, which ceased all operations last week. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5478.cfm - 11 August 2004

US States want P2P companies to educate consumers
United States attorneys general from 47 states and territories have sent an open letter to peer-to-peer vendors. In the letter the AGs demand ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5472.cfm - 9 August 2004

Apple accuses Real of cracking
Apple Computer today released a statement in which it accuses RealNetworks of hacking [SIC] the iPod copy protection when creating the Harmony Technology ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5455.cfm - 29 July 2004

No ESS chips for non-CSS companies
Digital video processor manufacturer ESS Technology has been denied the right to sell its products to some of their clients. A preliminary injunction ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5450.cfm - 28 July 2004

More people are downloading movies
According to a survey by On-line Testing Exchange (OTX) and MPAA about 24 percent of Internet users have downloaded at least one movie from ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5405.cfm - 12 July 2004

New MPAA president announced
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has today announced that Dan Glickman will follow Jack Valenti as president and CEO of the group. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5389.cfm - 5 July 2004

Moore: Go ahead, pirate my movie
Probably the most controversial movie director at the moment, Michael Moore, has told to press that he doesn't have any problem whatsoever with ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5386.cfm - 5 July 2004

Encrypted DVDs to solve the screener problem?
Last year, a big controversy surrounded the MPAA's decision to ban all so-called "screener" DVDs. Screeners are pre-release versions of movies, ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5333.cfm - 17 June 2004

Biometric authentication to media players?
Biometric vendor Veritouch that also supplies materials to the U.S. government, has together with Swedish design company Thinking Materials ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5289.cfm - 4 June 2004

Study: Parents don't know Net piracy is illegal
According to a study conducted by Nielsen NRG on behalf of the MPAA, 40 percent of American parents whose kids use the Net don't know that swapping ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5091.cfm - 18 March 2004

The results of the 2nd AAC at 128kbps public listening test
Apple iTunes graps another victory in public listening comparison, featuring MPEG-4 AAC codecs at 128kbps bitrate. The Nero AAC codec is statistically ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5029.cfm - 2 March 2004

Judge: 321 Studios must stop selling DVD X Copy
After eight months of waiting, San Fransisco federal judge Susan Illston delivered her ruling on high-profile case where Hollywood studios have ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4997.cfm - 20 February 2004

CDs and DVDs to feature a new FBI warning label
Trade groups representing movie, game and music publishers announced today that all new CDs, DVDs and games sold in the United States will shortly ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4993.cfm - 19 February 2004

The 2nd AAC at 128kbps public listening test
The second AAC/MP4 comparison takes place due to the rapid developement of the codec technology.Since the last AAC at 128kbps listening test, ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4991.cfm - 19 February 2004

Australian retailer forced to pull DVD X Copy
Australian IT retailer Conexus has been forced by the country's anti-piracy organization, Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT, ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4981.cfm - 16 February 2004

FBI investigates Oscar screener leak
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has confirmed that it is investigating the case of DVD screener copies sent to Academy Award members being ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4888.cfm - 19 January 2004

DVD Jon will not return to court
The Economic Crime Unit of the Norwegian police, Økokrim confirmed Monday that it will not appeal the recent ruling in favor of Jon Lech Johansen. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4837.cfm - 5 January 2004

MPAA plans to appeal the screener decision
MPAA lost the first round in court last week in so-called "screener case", where indie film makers sued the movie industry association over ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4770.cfm - 9 December 2003

Indie group wins screener ban battle
Federal Judge Michael Mukasey on Friday ruled that the MPAA can not stop their members from sending out screener copies of movies. MPAA immediately ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4761.cfm - 6 December 2003

DVD screener ruling on Friday
After hearing testimonies from both sides Judge Michael Mukasey said he would rule on Friday on whether to grant a temporary restraining order ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4758.cfm - 4 December 2003

DVD Jon goes to trial again
One of the most famous legal cases is about to go to a retrial tomorrow. The case, filed by American movie industry lobby group MPAA, against ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4743.cfm - 1 December 2003

MPAA responds to screener lawsuit
Motion Picture Association of America delivered its response in a lawsuit brought against it by fourteen independent film companies over the ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4737.cfm - 27 November 2003

MPAA sued over DVD screener ban
A group of more than a dozen small film companies sued the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) yesterday over the DVD screener ban ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4730.cfm - 25 November 2003

MPAA: No screeners for other than Academy members
MPAA announced today that its plan to ban screener (meaning DVD or VHS copies of movies that haven't been released on DVD/VHS yet and are sent ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4704.cfm - 17 November 2003

MPAA's CEO plans to resign in January?
According to industry sources, MPAA's president of 38 years, 82-year-old Jack Valenti plans to leave his $1M-a-year job in January. He has ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4697.cfm - 14 November 2003

Compaact! MP4 AAC audio compressor released
We all know Apple iTunes and many of us have heard about the Nero Burning ROM. These are the two pieces of main stream software that are utilizing ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4636.cfm - 29 October 2003

MPAA to fund anti-piracy education in schools
Two big intellectual property associations, RIAA and MPAA, have taken very different approaches to combat ever-growing online piracy. While ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4620.cfm - 24 October 2003

MPAA and Academy make a deal over Oscar screeners
MPAA and Academy of Motion Picture Art have managed to reach a compromise over the MPAA's decision to ban Oscar screeners that has infuriated ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4616.cfm - 23 October 2003

LA Critics call off their awards in protest
Influential Los Angeles Film Critics Association has announced that they wont hold their annual awards this year at all, unless MPAA repeals ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4605.cfm - 20 October 2003

Writers Guild opposes screener ban
The west coast branch of Writers Guild of America has officially announced that it opposes the MPAA's decision to ban all Oscar screeners. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4590.cfm - 14 October 2003

MPAA's decision to ban Oscar screeners stands
Despite various rumors in public during this week that MPAA's chief executive Jack Valenti had met various indie movie authors in order to negotiate ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4572.cfm - 10 October 2003

MPAA bans Oscar screeners
In fear of increasing movie piracy, MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) has decided to ban Oscar screeners. Screeners are pre-release ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4548.cfm - 1 October 2003

UCLA fights illegal file-sharing
Even though universities have had strict anti-piracy policies for ages, the recent RIAA lawsuits have forced universities to remind their students ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4505.cfm - 22 September 2003

MPAA tracks illegal movie copies
The guys at VCDQuality have noticed that strange markings have started to appear on some recent movies. The dots are most likely used by MPAA ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4469.cfm - 10 September 2003

Warner sues 321 Studios Europe
The legal fight between 321 Studios and the major Hollywood studios has expanded to Europe. Warner Home Video (part of AOL TimeWarner media ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4433.cfm - 2 September 2003

RIAA and MPAA gain support
Several legal music services, copyright organizations and legal scholars have filed "friend of the court" briefs asking to overturn an earlier ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4409.cfm - 27 August 2003

Movie industry blames IM and SMS for movie flops
This summer's major movie flops, such as The Hulk and Gigli didn't fail because of their bad script, bad acting or just overall lack of originality. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4395.cfm - 22 August 2003

Copying is stealing, says the MPAA
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has launched their new anti-piracy campaign with the slogan copying is stealing. TheRegister ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4361.cfm - 6 August 2003

MPAA anti-piracy campaign in movie theaters
New warning messages are about to hit the big screen, trying to convince the consumers not to obtain illegal copies of movies from the Internet.The ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4308.cfm - 22 July 2003

RIAA wins over 800 subpoenas against P2P users
RIAA claimed during the weekend that is has managed to win already 871 subpoenas against individual American P2P users. With subpoenas, RIAA ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4305.cfm - 21 July 2003

Appeals court speeds up the process for P2P trial
Los Angeles federal court has sped up the appeals process for the case where movie and recording industry (represented by their lobby groups, ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4299.cfm - 18 July 2003

Movie studios sue Chinese pirates
Major Hollywood studios have launched their first legal actions against pirates in mainland China. The MPA (international sibling of the MPAA) ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4292.cfm - 17 July 2003

DCIA: Distributed Computing Industry Association
P2P-industry is more and more organized, in order to counter the legal pressure from RIAA and other copyright organizations.The association ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4233.cfm - 2 July 2003

FBI to join in fight against P2P piracy?
A new anti-piracy bill called Piracy Deterrence and Education Act of 2003 was introduced in Congress on Thursday. The bill would drag FBI into ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4202.cfm - 23 June 2003

The MPAA is hunting domain names
The MPAA is sending rather aggressive emails in order to capture domain names that have a trademark on. The owner of ratednc-17.com received ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4156.cfm - 10 June 2003

321Studios: The case begins
Today the much anticipated court room drama between major movie studios, represented by the MPAA, and 321 Studios, the developers of the DVD-Video ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4080.cfm - 15 May 2003

PeerGuardian: Protect your privacy on P2P networks
PeerGuradian is a special firewall software designed to block the IP ranges of RIAA, MPAA and similar organizations and authorities. The list ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4079.cfm - 15 May 2003

Johansen vs Norway/MPAA round 2 in December
Norwegian economics crime division said today that an appeals court has approved to handle the prosection's appeal in case against norwegian ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/3943.cfm - 1 April 2003

Update to the "Super-DMCA" conversation
News.com has much more details about the controversial "Super-DMCA" legislation discussion that took off this week in various news sites, including ours. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/3933.cfm - 29 March 2003

MPAA wants Your secrets
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act clearly isn't enough for MPAA. ISPs have told MPAA that they can't always determine the activities of their ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/3925.cfm - 27 March 2003

Altnet claims 75M legal downloads via Kazaa
Altnet, the service that piggybacks with the mega-popular FastTrack-based P2P tool, Kazaa, claims that it has so far delivered over 75 million ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/3889.cfm - 19 March 2003

Grokster cashing in because of the lawsuit
According to Grokster, the only outside company who is still using the FastTrack's P2P network, the lawsuit that has been filed against it by ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/3850.cfm - 4 March 2003

DeCSS Johansen goes back to court
As suspected, the Jon Johansen DeCSS -case will go to appeals court. Earlier this year Norwegian court found the 19-year-old teenager not quilty ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/3840.cfm - 2 March 2003

Hollywood tries to fight Asian DVD piracy
Hollywood has stepped up its efforts to fight against the ever-growing DVD piracy in Asia by offering rewards for informers within the area ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/3808.cfm - 19 February 2003

IRC networks pulling the plug from file trading
Two IRC networks (IRC == Internet Relay Chat, a protocol which was developed before the WWW was born) have announced restrictions on file trading ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/3780.cfm - 10 February 2003

Hollywood sues a "DVD sanitizer" company
A company called ClearPlay offers currently a service that allows (paranoid...) American consumers to "sanitize" their DVD movies when they ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/3752.cfm - 30 January 2003

RIAA joins forces with HP and Intel to oppose MPAA's bill?
According to Wall Street Journal, the music industry association RIAA is about to join almighty technology companies, led by Intel, HP and Microsoft, ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/3706.cfm - 14 January 2003

Kazaa can be sued in States
Los Angeles federal judge ruled on last week's Friday in a landmark decision that the owner of Kazaa, Sharman Networks, can be sued in the United States. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/3702.cfm - 13 January 2003

DVD CCA's boss testifies in Johansen's case
DVD CCA's (DVD Copy Control Association) president and COO, John Hoy, testified today in mockery of lawsuit that we know today as the case of ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/3648.cfm - 12 December 2002

MPAA sues group of eBay sellers over pirated DVDs
MPAA (Movie Picture Association of America) has sued several American eBay sellers for allegedly selling pirated DVDs through the auction site. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/3643.cfm - 11 December 2002

"DeCSS" Johansen goes to court
Jon Lech Johansen, also known as 'DVD Jon', goes to court next week in Oslo, Norway. Johansen co-authored DeCSS, the software which makes ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/3636.cfm - 6 December 2002

Judge delays his decision on FastTrack P2P case
In a surprise move, federal court Judge Stephen Wilson, delayed his decision on FastTrack P2P case where both parties -- RIAA and MPAA and two ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/3619.cfm - 3 December 2002

Yet another Pioneer A05 review
CDRInfo.com has a review of Pioneer's latest DVD writer, Pioneer A05. Their review findings weren't very surprising, only real cons in the ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/3537.cfm - 9 November 2002

Online privacy group counter-attacks MPAA and RIAA
Consumer privacy group, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), has attacked against RIAA's and MPAA's intentions to force colleges ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/3534.cfm - 8 November 2002

MPAA and RIAA threaten big companies
Major copyright owners' associations, including the notorious RIAA and MPAA, have sent letters to thousand biggest publicly listed American ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/3494.cfm - 26 October 2002

RIAA and MPAA seek ruling in P2P case
RIAA, MPAA, and NMPA seek summary judgement in the case against P2P "giants" Kazaa, Grokster, and MusicCity. The three organizations charge ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/3329.cfm - 14 September 2002

Norwegian DeCSS case delayed
Norwegian DeCSS case against Jon Johansen has been delayed. Johanssen, who is accused of creating the "notorious" DeCSS tool that allows people ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/3221.cfm - 13 August 2002

Bill that would allow MPAA and RIAA to hack your PC
News.com has an article of a upcoming bill that would make it legal for copyright holders to hack individual users' computers if they share ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/3163.cfm - 23 July 2002

MPAA puts the pressure on ISPs
MPAA has increased its antipiracy efforts against individual Net users in this year. The number of DMCA letters sent out to users' ISPs has ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/3126.cfm - 13 July 2002

MPA offers rewards for pirate busters in Asia
MPAA's international arm, MPA, has offered $150,000 reward for people who help them to bust DVD pirates in Asia. MPA said that in 2001 there ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/3122.cfm - 12 July 2002

MPAA sues Film88.com
MPAA (and itse member studios) has finally sued now defunct $1-a-pop movie service Film88.com which has caused major shockwaves through the ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/3116.cfm - 10 July 2002

KaZaA's new owner gets sued as well
Recording and movie industry asked U.S. court to allow adding KaZaA's current owner, Vanuatu-based Sharman Networks, to the lawsuit that they're ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/3112.cfm - 9 July 2002

Congressman wants to give RIAA ability to flood P2P networks
California congressman Howard Berman is currently preparing a bill that would ultimately allow copyright owners and their representative agencies, ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/3070.cfm - 26 June 2002

Film88 already down
It was good while it lasted -- and it didn't last too long this time. The movie site Film88 which we wrote about yesterday has already been ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/3013.cfm - 7 June 2002

Microsoft steps up against MPAA
In slightly surprising move, Microsoft has posted an article on their website basically opposing MPAA's and RIAA's suggested hardware copy-protection ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/3008.cfm - 6 June 2002

Movie88 is back -- from Iran
The notorious website that was forced to shut down earlier this year, Movie88.com, is back. Guys have moved their servers from Taiwan to Iran ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/3005.cfm - 6 June 2002

Death of an American DTV?
While rest of the world is way ahead in digital TV revolution, American consumers are still waiting. And will wait, if its up to Hollywood to ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/3000.cfm - 4 June 2002

DVD Copy Plus makers challenge DMCA
Small upstart company called 321 Studios filed a lawsuit in San Fransisco yesterday asking federal court to decide whether its software bundle ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/2849.cfm - 23 April 2002

LOTR DVD plans
Ok, it's been forever since we last commented upcoming DVD releases, since there are just way too many DVDs coming out nowadays and there are ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/2756.cfm - 27 March 2002

Valenti: 2001 a record year
MPAA's CEO and president Jack Valenti told during ShoWest, an annual movie theatre operators' gathering, that 2001 was Hollywood's most successful ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/2687.cfm - 7 March 2002

Morpheus, Grokster & KaZaA trial begins
Yesterday we heard first arguments in a case that will most likely take forever, when U.S. federal judge decided that software vendors offering ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/2682.cfm - 5 March 2002

Morpheus to use Gnutella?
In yet another update for Morpheus, an extremely popular P2P client software, News.com has an article where StreamCast Networks (company who ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/2667.cfm - 28 February 2002

DoD leader pleads guilty
28-year-old John Sankus, Jr pleaded guilty for running "notorious" piracy group DrinkOrDie and causing financial loss for software, music and ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/2665.cfm - 27 February 2002

Californian DeCSS case goes to Supreme Court
California Supreme Court yesterday agreed to hear the case between DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA) and Andrew Bunner. In case DVD CCA ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/2649.cfm - 21 February 2002

Kazaa unveils new functions
Kazaa, a enormously popular P2P software that was sold to Australian Sharman Networks in January, today unveiled new features to its software client. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/2625.cfm - 11 February 2002

Movie88.com scares MPAA
Ok, you must have already heard about Taiwanese site called Movie88.com? It's a small site that offers all the latest Hollywood blockbusters ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/2619.cfm - 7 February 2002

Stanford University shuts down their Gnutella server
Stanford University bowed under pressure from Motion Picture Association of America and shut down their dorm's Gnutella server that students ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/2580.cfm - 18 January 2002

EFF to defend MusicCity
Electronic Frontier Foundation (or EFF) will defend P2P service operator MusicCity in its case against movie studios and record labels. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/2436.cfm - 7 November 2001

FIRST VICTORY!: California Judge decides that posting DeCSS is legal
In an extremely long case where major movie studios and their organizations, MPAA and DVD CCA, have been trying to prevent the distribution ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/2426.cfm - 2 November 2001

RIAA and MPAA have different views about file-sharing
Both the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) have asked ISPs to remove web pages ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/2312.cfm - 4 September 2001

Traditional radio stations have to pay for webcasts
If you have followed the digital music industry in past couple of years, you've noticed many, many court fights between new Internet companies ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/2260.cfm - 4 August 2001

RIAA wants to reverse Aimster decision
RIAA is asking federal court to reverse the decision to take the legal action against Aimster in Albany, NY instead of Manhattan. Decision to ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/2250.cfm - 30 July 2001

MPAA to support Disney in movie trailer case
Buena Vista, a Disney -owned movie studio, asked yesterday from federal judge to give a permission for the MPAA to file "friend of the court" ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/2241.cfm - 26 July 2001

Copyright owners put the pressure on ISPs
In U.S. various copyright owners, most notably MPAA and RIAA, have been putting pressure on various high-speed internet service providers to ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/2239.cfm - 25 July 2001

CenterSpan secures $5.4M investment
CenterSpan Communications, current owner of once-troubled Scour Exchange P2P software and brand, announced that it has secured $5.4M in equity ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/2132.cfm - 18 June 2001

Princeton researcher sues RIAA, SDMI and Verance
Princeton University researcher Edward Felten and the organizers of USENIX security conference have sued RIAA, SDMI and Verance over the rights ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/2104.cfm - 6 June 2001

DeCSS puts free speech to a test
The hacker magazine 2600 and major movie studios filed their answers last week to a federal appeals court. The court has been asked whether ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/2098.cfm - 4 June 2001

RIAA sued Aimster
Yeah, yeah, old news.. RIAA sued p2p company Aimster in last week's Thursday with almost exactly the same arguments as it sued Napster in 1999. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/2084.cfm - 29 May 2001

Scour Exchange re-opens - legal & web-based this time
Scour Exchange used to be the best way to download other-than-MP3 files from the Net, but company faced legal problems from MPAA and was forced ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/2082.cfm - 29 May 2001

Twist in DeCSS case
One of the best known on-going DMCA cases, the trial that tries to solve if it's legal to distribute DeCSS, got a weird twist this week, when ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/2042.cfm - 11 May 2001

DeCSS trial continues on Tuesday
One of the best-known court fights is going to continue tomorrow. The case between website 2600 and MPAA (Movie Picture Association of America) ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/2012.cfm - 30 April 2001

MPAA targets Gnutella users
MPAA has taken first action against P2P network, Gnutella -- dubbed often as "impossible to stop". Gnutella is a peer-2-peer network, pretty ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/1992.cfm - 19 April 2001

2600 gets strong addition to its legal team in DeCSS case
Hacker website 2600 which posted DeCSS source code on its pages and is in middle of on-going legal battle against the MPAA because of this got ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/1959.cfm - 4 April 2001

Scour is back -- just legal this time
CenterSpan Communications, company that bought Scour's technological assets in bankruptcy court earlier this year, has relaunched the Scour ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/1934.cfm - 27 March 2001

Get paid to share?
Yes, that's right. A company called 3ECS is actually paying you to share your files on their service. For each file that is downloaded from ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/1890.cfm - 9 March 2001

CSS encryption broken again -- with 7 lines of Perl code!
Two members of the MIT Student Information Processing Board introduced probably the shortest version of CSS decrypting code ever written -- ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/1886.cfm - 8 March 2001

Studios reiterate arguments in DeCSS case
MPAA sued 2600 website in last year for spreading DeCSS code and won the first round when NY court decided in August that 2600 had broken the ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/1863.cfm - 22 February 2001

Verio refuses to remove DeCSS
The US ISP Verio has refused to remove a Website hosted on their servers against the Motion Picture Association of America's (MPAA) wishes. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/1801.cfm - 25 January 2001

EFF wants appeals court to reject the court order against 2600
The Electronic Frontier Foundation says that court decision in August 2000 against website 2600 didn't consider all the legal aspects of the DeCSS program. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/1797.cfm - 24 January 2001

Download a movie for rent?
Miramax Films has announced that it will be offering the movie "Guinevere" available for download on January 22nd. The movie can be downloaded ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/1787.cfm - 18 January 2001

Napster goes to court again
Tomorrow is yet another court date for Napster. It's time for appeals court hearings in case of Napster vs. RIAA. In July, when judge Patel ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/1574.cfm - 1 October 2000

Scour fires most of its employees
Scour, a company that is currently under fire from MPAA, fired 52 of their 64 employees yesterday. Only the executives and senior engineers ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/1494.cfm - 2 September 2000

Napster filed briefs
One day after the district court judge ruled against 2600.com in the case of MPAA vs. 2600.com, the other mega-famous copyright case is in the news again. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/1462.cfm - 18 August 2000

MPAA won the first round against 2600
Judge Lewis Kaplan yesterday ruled against 2600 website in the case of MPAA against 2600's publisher, Emmanuel Goldstein. Ruling means that ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/1460.cfm - 17 August 2000

DeCSS final briefs on-line
Both sides of the DeCSS case posted their final briefs in New York on Tuesday. The defence brief argues that the Digital Millennium Copyright ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/1438.cfm - 9 August 2000

CuteMX has been shut down
GlobalScape announced yesterday that because of Napster's court case, they have shut down their CuteMX service. CuteMX is probably one of the ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/1399.cfm - 28 July 2000

Why MPAA is so scared?
Answer is actually pretty simple when you think about it. Think how movie distribution works in these days. Big movie studios get their money ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/1387.cfm - 24 July 2000

MPAA sues Scour
"RIAA guys have all the fun, we just have this lousy 2600 case on our hands. Let's do something about it!" MPAA sued Scour.com for copyright ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/1379.cfm - 20 July 2000

Free speech touted in DVD cracking case
CNET News.com discusses the effect the DVD cracking case has on free speech. Earlier this year MPAA obtained a court order prohibiting Eric ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/1182.cfm - 8 May 2000

MP3.com, guilty
Today, U.S. court made a decision in the case of RIAA vs MP3.com. Judge ruled that MP3.com has violated RIAA's copyrights in their My.MP3.com ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/1147.cfm - 28 April 2000

Change from Internet to Freenet
London programmer Ian Clarke and rapidly growing bunch of volunteers are working to develop a way to change Internet into "Freenet", a network ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/1137.cfm - 26 April 2000

First shots made in Napster case
First court hearing are done in Napster vs. RIAA case in this week. Most important factors in the case seem to be 20 years old VCR ruling that ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/1041.cfm - 2 April 2000

TheMPAA.org Opens
TheMPAA.org is a site dedicated to providing people with answers on how to back up their DVD media, and provide help related to DVD. Check it out!
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/800.cfm - 6 February 2000

DVD-Digest.com Taken Off the Web
DVD-Digest.com pages have been removed from the Web by the site's service provider. Apparently the ISP was contacted by MPAA lawyers, which ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/683.cfm - 9 January 2000

DeCSS causes a huge fuss
DeCSS, the tiny bit of software that makes it possible for anyone to copy encrypted DVD-video content, has caused a huge fuss on the Internet. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/363.cfm - 4 November 1999