Do UK libraries lend out ‘pirate’ DVDs?
p2pnet news view | MPAA News:- Hollywood appears to be suggesting UK libraries are dishonestly allowing patrons to illegally check out ‘pirated’ Hollywood ‘product’.
“A program … will be put into place next year which will see local libraries receive DVD donations, allowing members of the public to come and borrow non-pirated discs,” states the Hollywood Reporter.
The news comes in a story which says the UK movie industry is, “throwing its weight behind the most ambitious anti-piracy drive yet by aiming to ‘make London a fake-free zone’ by the 2012 Olympics.
The stunt, billed as the, “largest ever collaboration on anti-piracy,” will be formally announced today and is being led by the, “Motion Picture Assn [read MPAA] and U.K. Film Council, with support from the U.K. Intellectual Property Office, Federation Against Copyright Theft, London Councils, London Trading Standards Assn. and the Metropolitan Police,” says the story.
Up front as the fake free (sorry, fake-free) spokesman is FACT’s Kieron Sharp.
Fact, short for Federation Against Copyright Theft, could also be an acronym for Farcical Approaches to Copyright Transgressions, said p2pnet in a story on a recent FACT show staged with Warner Brothers Entertainment, Europe, for jaded music industry executives, from whence came the graph.
And in the second, third and fourth and fifth places respectively are Rapidshare, Veoh, Megaupload and Hulu, claimed Fact and Warner, also saying a third of all Britons are online pirates.
Strangely, though, UK libraries are missing.
Was Warner acting as a strange kind of loss-leader for this latest move by Time Warner, Viacom, Fox, Sony, NBC Universal and Disney to shanghai agencies wholly funded by British taxpayers for purely commercial purposes, do you think?
“Part of the initiative will be free December screenings of Danny Boyle’s ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ that will take place in all three London boroughs to encourage people to see movies on the big screen,” says the Hollywood Reporter.
“Life-affirming” Slumdog Millionaire, “is about an impoverished young Mumbai man who finds himself on the verge of winning 20 million rupees on the Hindi version of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’? ” – explains the Chicago Tribune.
Yes.
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Hollywood Reporter – U.K. sets major anti-piracy push, December 3, 2008
p2pnet – YouTube, Hulu, top illegal host sites: Warner Bros, November 19, 2008
Chicago Tribune - Life-affirming message of ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ called comfort for Mumbai, December 3, 2008
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December 3rd, 2008 at 1:42 pm
You know, I wonder if the RIAA/MPAA got permission to use things like the YouTube logo or mIRC icon in that image.
The irony would be delicious.
December 3rd, 2008 at 1:56 pm
^^ Yeh.
Maybe The Pirate Bay will sue them?
Cheers!
December 3rd, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Good Luck, they will need it. Ha hahahahahahahahahahahah.
April 22nd, 2009 at 11:47 pm
O Saya Lyrics – Slumdog Millionaire…
Who wants to be a Bollywood movie fan? Slumdog Millionaire has reaped all grammiess – not only the eight Academy Awards last night, but also box office receipts totaling nearly $100 million in the US..A lot of people may have seen The Curious Case of B…