New MPAA anti-p2p attack
p2pnet.net News:- They’re calling it MOVIE STUDIOS VS INTERNET MOVIE THIEVES, ROUND FIVE!
‘They’ is the movie studio cartel’s MPAA which says it’s launched more lawsuits as, "a dramatic escalation in the movie industry’s fight against film piracy".
Interestingly, the release point for this latest misinformation puff piece is Los Angeles where the MPAA (Moron Picture Association of America) has just forked out close to two hundred grand to have 10 spy cameras stashed around the LA fashion district.
“These lawsuits are helping us raise awareness about the consequences of stealing movies using the Internet,” says the MPAA’s John G. Malcolm, going on to hoist the now hoary Revenge of the Sith flick as an example
You know the one. Where it appears online after being uploaded by a Hollywood insider?
Malcolm doesn’t say what this “dramatic escalation” consists of. but whatever it is, it’s a 100%, carved in rock, cast-iron, solid gold certainty that it’ll have zero any effect on downloads.
It is, though, a great way to get the mainstream media scribes all fired up.
Again.
“People swapping movies illegally online need to understand that this is theft and they will be held accountable,” says Malcolm, totally ignoring the fact that nothing has been stolen from anyone, let alone the studios, no money has changed hands and that his masters are reporting eye-popping revenues in the billions, file sharing notwithstanding.
“The civil suits seek damages and injunctive relief,” says Malcolm sternly, going to point out that statutory damages can reach $30,000 for each movie “illegally copied or distributed” online, and as much as $150,000 per motion picture “if such infringement is proven to be willful”.
“Our goal is to make an example of these people so everyone in their neighborhoods realizes that those who steal movies online are not above the law,” he says.
OK.
So is the MPAA saying anything about its effort to track down and prosecute the movie industry personage who launched Sith on the nets?
Nary a word.
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See:-
spy cameras – MPAA and LA pirates: II, p2pnet, June 3, 2005
now hoary – Was the ‘Sith’ leak deliberate?, p2pnet, May 26, 2005
June 3rd, 2005 at 9:39 pm
instead of sueing torrent sites they are probably targeting actual customers now just like the RIAA. wow. Wasn’t it a year or two ago when the MPAA said they didn’t want to go down the same destructive path as their RIAA brothers? times change.
Rick
June 4th, 2005 at 3:23 am
It has been suggested that these actions are against people tracked down in the Loki shutdown fiasco
June 4th, 2005 at 8:26 am
I hope they got the RIAA’s “do not sue” list of deceased people, elderly women who have never owned a computer, and IP addresses where one or more of the dotted decimals is greater than 255.