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Netflix has become a member of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the first Internet-based service to join the trade group.
The MPAA has confirmed this week that they were responsible for the shutdown of scene release group YIFY and its parent site YTS following lawsuits against Popcorn Time devs.
The newly released web version of Popcorn Time has already been taken down, but the site has quickly found a new domain.
Last year, the MPAA seemingly shook up the piracy industry when they announced they had won a suit against once-popular file hosting site Hotfile and agreed to an $80 million settlement.
The information spilling onto the Internet as a result of the Sony Pictures hack keeps making headlines, and this time it has exposed a rift between Google and the MPAA.
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has joined the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), it has been announced.
Once-popular cyberlocker Hotfile has settled its long-standing lawsuit with Hollywood and the MPAA.
The MPAA has released its annual “Best Practices to Prevent Film Theft” for movie theater owners, and as expected the trade group wants theaters to use extreme measure to avoid camera-based piracy.
Long-time piracy site to shutdown following settlement
A report this week from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) blasted search engines for failing to fight copyright infringement.
A U.S. judge has found that Hotfile is liable on charges of copyright infringement, in a case dating back to 2011.
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is concerned about the illegal uploading of full length movies on YouTube.
The creators of the new "John Dies at the End" film have created a particularly funny trailer asking people not to pirate their film, or else.
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Everybody pirates.
According to new data, it appears even Hollywood studio employees openly download and share unauthorized copies of movies, ......
By the end of this month, the new "six-strikes" Copyright Alert System will go live in the U.S.
Verizon and Time Warner have outlined their ......
This week, Norway blocked the only law firm in the country that had rights to monitor file sharers.
The firm, Simonsen law, lost their current ......
Embattled cyberlocker founder Kim Dotcom has accused American VP Joe Biden of being the man who put the hit out on Megaupload and its related sites.
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The MPAA's CEO Chris Dodd has finally admitted that the group's tactics of comparing piracy to stealing is a bad choice.
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Just months after the shut down of the world's top cyberlocker Megaupload, Paramount Picture's has sent the MPAA and U.S. DOJ a list of 5 "rogue" ......
Google has backed Hotfile in its fight against the major movie studios.
The search giant has filed an amicus brief on behalf of the cyberlocker, ......
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