Hollywood bounty hunters
p2p news / p2pnet: Hollywood is fostering an upgrade to its Asia-Pacific scalp hunter scheme, originally launched in 1998.
The new bounty plan, "provides significant cash rewards for people who provide information that leads to the arrest of copyright infringers involved in the production, distribution and/or sale of pirated optical discs," says the MPA, an MPAA clone.
And in accordance with long-established movie industry practice, it’s being run by a publicly funded entity, in this case, the Hong Kong Customs & Excise Department.
"The MPA supports and operates a number of anti-piracy reward schemes around the Asia-Pacific region, including the just-launched MPA DVD Rewards Scheme in Malaysia," it says.
The, "cancer of piracy" is "damaging the health of creative industries in Hong Kong and around the Asia-Pacific region," intones MPA spokesperson Mike Ellis.
The scheme was organized by the MPA, Business Software Alliance, Entertainment Software Alliance, Hong Kong Optical Disc Manufacturers Association, International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (Hong Kong Group), Motion Picture Industry Association and Sony Computer Entertainment.
