The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has issued a statement in which it admits that the figure it has been touting since 2005 - that piracy of movies by college students accounted for 44% of all of the motion picture industry’s domestic losses - was overblown by a whopping 300%.
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Articles on PiratesThe Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has issued a statement in which it admits that the figure it has been touting since 2005 - that piracy of movies by college students accounted for 44% of all of the motion picture industry’s domestic losses - was overblown by a whopping 300%. Much has been made in the media this week about the news that the Recording Industry of America (RIAA) has announced, through one of their lawsuits, that they now consider it illegal for you to copy music from a CD you have purchased to your own computer, for your own personal use. The one thing that everyone seems to be overlooking is that the RIAA has not said this at all. In fact, they have explicitly stated that they are not concerned with people copying music to their computer (or iPod, or other personal MP3 player) for their own personal use. Allofmp3.com, one of the top mp3 download sites in the world for people looking for mp3 mp3 downloads, allowing people do to an mp3 search of the works of thousands of popular artists, and then download the mp3s for as little as ten cents, has been closed down by the Russian government in a bid to gain membership in the World Trade Organization. Allofmp3.com was considered a barrier to entry for Russia, with what has been estimated to be the world's largest collection of pirated music, all available as low cost and even nearly free mp3 downloads to Allofmp3's 5.5 million customers. The RIAA has sent 400 letters to 13 colleges and universities demanding that they put the squeeze on as many as 400 students for downloading music for free. The "pre-lawsuit" college letters from the RIAA tell the students that they may settle with the RIAA "at a discounted rate" or face a lawsuit. TorrentSpy, run by Valence Media, has accused the MPAA of hacking into their computers by hiring an ex-employee, Robert Anderson, to hack into their servers. Not uncoincidentally, TorrentSpy was on the receiving end of a lawsuit by the MPAA just a few months previous. Auction giant eBay has taken a stand against the thousands of auctions involving pirated copies of Microsoft software which regularly appear on its pages. The State of Texas has become the second plaintiff to file a lawsuit against Sony BMG, using the Texas anti-spyware law. Sony BMG has issued a statement recalling their CDs containing the XCP rootkit software, and offering to exchange any still out there for CDs free of First4Internet's XCP. Following a firestorm of cries of moral and legal outrage, Sony BMG has said that they will pull their DRM software from their music CDs. The DRM software, XCP, behaves like a rootkit when surreptitiously installed on a user's computer by the Sony music CD. Sony BMG has secretly included the First4Internet XCP2 digital rights management (DRM) software on its CDs in order to keep you from using any other media player on your computer with their content. Unfortunately, it has rootkit like properties, and actually exposes your computer to great risk. BWT Industry Technology Service d/b/a Computer Max, Data Day USA, Winvtech Solutions a/k/a Winvision Computers and Winvision Technology,Global Computing, Ion Technologies, Compustar, and Chips & Techs have all been sued today by Microsoft for software piracy. Says Microsoft, "Consumer input is key to understanding sources of illegal activity." Movies may be available simultaneously in the theaters and on DVD as studios contemplate earlier release dates for DVDs in an effort to get the jump on movie pirating. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, the Motion Picture Association has gotten an open search warrant for the entire city of New Delhi, India. Argentine authorites have arrested fifteen people in a multinational phishing scam, and, separately, the U.S. FBI has arrested 8 people in a global online piracy investigation, spokespersons for the agencies have said. In the phishing scam, which was truly international, police arrested suspects from ... In a decision in which the Canadian Private Copying Collective (somewhat analagous to the U.S.' RIAA, except that the CPCC actually represents the interests of the artists) says that it is "disappointed", the Canadian high court has this week let stand a ruling ... Proving that your copy of the Windows operating software is legitimate (and not pirated) in order to get updates became mandatory today with the launch of Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) 1.0. Previous to now participation in WGA had been voluntary. ... Authorities are reporting that pirated online copies of the newest Harry Potter book, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", hit the streets of the Internet in record time. Pirated (scanned) copies were available in ebook form, and audio versions on torrent sites, ... The body of Grokster was barely cold in the grave, when this press release came across Aunty's desk: WASHINGTON – As part of its continued efforts to promote legal online services, educate fans about the right and wrong way to enjoy digital music, and ... The Internet world is abuzz with talk about today's Supreme Court decision in the Grokster case, as it was with the Napster case before it. "Studios Win Big in Grokster Case," reads one headline; "Hollywood Wins Internet Piracy Battle," says another. ... REDMOND, Wash. — June 15, 2005 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the filing of four lawsuits against companies in Virginia and California for alleged distribution of counterfeit and/or illicit software and software components. Allegedly illegal or questionable actions of four companies were brought to ... Talk about spyware versus spyware. Authorities in Isreal have arrested dozens of people, including high level executives of multinational corporations, in what increasingly is developing into the Internet Trojan spyware custerfluck of the year. Only on the Internet can a Trojan ... WASHINGTON, D.C. - Acting Assistant Attorney General John C. Richter of the Criminal Division, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Immigration and Customs Enforcement Michael J. Garcia, and Assistant Director Louis M. Reigel of the ... Don't believe that pirated website content is really a problem? Can't imagine that anyone would really steal somebody else's website look, feel, or content? Well, think again, because it's real, and it happens. But don't take Aunty's word for it. Because ... WASHINGTON, May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Thirty-five percent of the software installed on personal computers worldwide was pirated in 2004, a one percentage point decrease from 36 percent in 2003. Yet, losses due to piracy increased from $29 billion to $33 billion. These ... That gaping hole in Tiger's Dashboard is no air vent - it's a wide-open, highly exploitable security threat for users of Apple's newest version of OS X for Mac. And we have Stephan.com's Zaptastic and Goatse widgets to thank for showing us ... Remember the Florida veterinarian who caught the wardriver jacked into his wireless Internet access outside his home? Has Aunty impressed upon you strongly enough yet that wardriving is serious, and wardriving can happen to you? This is, of course, the reason that ... The new W32/Nopir-B virus is a worm with a mission: to search and destroy MP3 files on its victims hard drives. Ouch. While it seems to be aimed at trying to target music pirates who populate their music collection ... Although modem hijacking (also known as "modem jacking") is not entirely new, New York State is set to become the first state to outlaw the practice. Modem jacking is when someone hijacks your modem and uses it to make long distance (usually ... A group of British ubergeeks calling themselves the "Drink or Die", or "DOD", gang has found itself on trial through the trials of several Drink or Die members, with the last - that of Drink or Die members Alex Bell and Stephen Dowd ... For those of you not aware, there is a trial ongoing down under in Australia, pitting record labels, among others, against Sharman Networks, the current owners of Kazaa. The trial is about the usual beefs between the record companies and peer-to-peer networks, which we ... The next time you are tempted to borrow someone's copy of their favourite software, take note: software developers, sick of having their software pirated, are starting to boobytrap it. That's right. In an interesting twist, it is being reported that Anton Tomov, ... William R. Trowbridge, of New York, and Michael Chicoine, of Texas, will be going from file sharing to cell sharing following their guilty pleas to Federal charges of using a peer-to-peer network. Oops, Aunty means of violating copyrights on peer-to-peer networks. ... Two bits of news this week should cause consternation in the peer-to-peer development and initiation worlds. First, California now has a bill wending its way through the law-making process which would require the developers of peer-to-peer and other file-swapping software to take "reasonable care" ... As if online downloaders don't have enough to worry about (rightly or wrongly), now they have to worry about spyware being buried within the media files they download. I don't think this is what Marshall McLuhan had in mind. According to a report in ... This month's issue of Wired Magazine has an absolutely brilliantly done piece by Clive Thompson in which he interviews and dissects Bram Cohen, the inventor and founder of BitTorrent. Thompson expertly brings Cohen to life on the pages for his readers, painting a picture ... Overpeer, a division of Loudeye, Inc., has been caught putting infected files on peer-to-peer filesharing networks, and putting attractive and likely sounding names on the files in order to induce users to download the files. Thinking that they are downloading their favourite songs or ... LokiTorrent, one of the latest targets of the Motion Picture Association of America's legal crackdown on filesharing sites using the BitTorrent technology to allow users to download copyrighted movies, has vowed to fight the lawsuit, and is asking for donations to a legal ... Think that software pirating is just a problem for the big guys, like Microsoft, or maybe not even so much of a problem at all? Try telling that to Nigel Cross, owner of Xequte.com, developers of a number of software packages including SmartPix Manager, ... In April of 2001, a little known international cooperative aimed at stopping online software piracy had toted up an impressive 120 searches in 27 of the United States, and in 11 other countries. Dubbed "Operation Fastlink", the project is billed by the U.S. ... Popular file-sharing service BitTorrent today took a double hit as a large BitTorrent server site was raided by police in Finland, while in the United States hundreds of peer-to-peer system operators were sued by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). The Finnish raid ... Aunty must really be behind the times. Lots of dust on this old fossil, apparently. You see, Aunty thought that the purpose of sending our children to school was so that they could..you know..learn things. Things like how to read and write, ... There are people who don't agree with peer-to-peer and other file-sharing networks, and then there are people who really don't agree with peer-to-peer and other file-sharing networks. It would seem that someone in the latter category has taken umbrage with BitTorrent, and has taken ... Phil Leigh's "Inside Digital Media" is a place where, according to their site, "you can see and hear interviews with thought leaders in the Digital Media industries." And indeed that is just what they offer. As Aunty reported to you all earlier this month here, the Motion Picture Association (MPA) is going on a lawsuit blitz, suing anyone they can get their hands on who has impermissibly downloaded even just one movie. This week it appears that their wide-dragging ... As they promised that they would, the Motion Picture Assocation of America (MPAA) and their members have filed hundreds of lawsuits this week against people who have downloaded, traded, or otherwise pirated commercial movies. Like their brethern in the Recording Industry Assocation of America ... A British web statistics analysis firm has said that file sharing program BitTorrent is responsible for an astonishing 35% of all traffic on the Internet right now. Leaving aside the question of how much of that massive activity involves the illegal swapping of files ... They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If that's true, then the Recording Industry Association of America should be very flattered, as the Motion Picture Assocation is following suit (pun intended). And certainly this will make a criminal ... |
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