p2pnet - rss feed: MPAA goes after BitTorrent
p2pnet.net News:- The entertainment industry is fiercely escalating its efforts to crush p2p file sharing and anyone who uses p2p applications.
A site in Finland featuring BitTorrent links was today nailed by Finnish police at the instigation of the Big Four music label cartel.
And now the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America), which recently launched an attack against the p2p community with a copy-cat version of the RIAA’s fruitless sue ‘em all campaign, is also upping the ante against BitTorrent and, “those who operate its servers,” says Reuters.
You could almost paraphrase Oscar Wilde and describe this as the unspeakable in full pursuit of the unbeatable.
The civil suits mark, “the next step in the Motion Picture Assn. of America’s (MPAA) anti-piracy campaign, which started last month with lawsuits against individuals who shared movies on peer-to-peer services,” it says, going on:.
“In addition to civil lawsuits filed in the United States, a news conference at the MPAA’s offices in Washington on Tuesday also will detail how international law enforcement has aided these anti-piracy efforts. Further details of the event were not available.”
The labels and the studios have been able to turn a number of police force units around the world into entertainment industry cops, financed by tax-payers.
In much the same way, they’re also successfully molding teaching institutions such as Penn State into unpaid product sales and enforcement agencies, often with the enthusiastic cooperation of senior administrators.
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See:-
nailed - Finland’s Finreactor raided, p2pnet, December 14, 2004
upping the ante - Hollywood fights illegal downloads by targeting servers, Reuters, December 14, 2004
copy-cat version - MPAA sue ‘em all war, p2pnet, November 4, 2004
fruitless - P2p file sharing increases, p2pnet, December 9, 2004
molding teaching institutions - Big Music: selling in schools, December 13, 2004
December 15th, 2004 at 12:16 am
I just heard about the MPAA going after BitTorrent and eDonkey on CNN Headline News today. Julia Borschton (sp?) of Fortune Magazine reported how it was “leaked today” that the MPAA was going to go after the sites responsible for BitTorrent and eDonkey, and how those sites are trading grounds for illegal files. I’m going by memory of course, and I’m sure I’m missing some details, but the strong impression I got was that these so called journalists don’t really have a clue about what’s what in the P2P world, or even something as simple as how these things even work. Ignorant reporting of this kind is the absolute worst kind of reporting I can think of, as it spreads lies and ignorance rather than truth and understanding. Dumbasses…
December 15th, 2004 at 1:24 am
Why exactly are you wasting your time watching CNN? The truth lies elsewhere.
December 15th, 2004 at 3:15 am
By comparison, I guess this is a rather minor issue.
Only a couple of years ago, the US press was so busy beating the war drums for the Iraq invasion that they never bothered to report the true facts of the matter. It was a disgrace. Had they done their job we might not even be in the grave mess we are now in.
December 15th, 2004 at 5:40 am
But someone has to do it. After all, you can’t fight something if you don’t know what the other side is thinking (if they even bother to do that, which it seems they don’t).