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1. Another judge sides with the MPAA over DVD copies

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Yet another court has ruled that, although it is completely legal for people to back up a copy of a DVD they have purchased, it's illegal for anyone to write software enabling them to do it. San Francisco ...

2. RealNetworks defeated over DVD copying

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... Picture Association of America (MPAA) - representing Walt Disney, Sony, Universal and others - alleged that it was an illegal pirating tool. RealNetworks argued that RealDVD simply represented a way ...

3. MPAA targets Pirate Bay over alleged copyright infringement

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... infringement. "We have filed a complaint against The Pirate Bay because they have not stopped their activities after they were sentenced to prison," MPAA lawyer Monique Wadsted told AFP.   Unsurprisingly, ...

4. RealNetworks and Hollywood battling over DVD ripping

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... not RealNetworks’ DVD copying software, RealDVD, violated a licensing agreement which covers the digital-rights-management protocols utilized by DVDs. In September, a lawsuit was filed by the MPAA against ...

5. Hollywood panics! X-Men Origins: Wolverine pirated, hits web a month before official release

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   ... no idea how the movie escaped its tight security protocols. Despite collaborative efforts by the studio, FBI and MPAA to block sites that host illegal copies, nobody could stop it spreading through file ...

6. Internet Safety Act: Imposes data retention laws on home Wi-Fi users

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... as the RIAA and the MPAA, who could subpoena records in an attempt to reduce online piracy. The bills state: "A provider of an electronic communication service or remote computing service shall retain ...

7. Hollywood – Real Networks: 1:0

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

     Hollywood studios scored the first goal in its match against Real Networks’ RealDVD software. The MPAA apparently forced Real Networks to take RealDVD off the market for now, as the software disappeared ...

8. MPAA sues Real Networks over RealDVD – and has reason to be upset

   (Opinion/Opinion Features)

     Opinion – Real Networks and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) have filed dueling lawsuits in U.S. courts with one side trying to protect the RealDVD DVD copying software and the ...

9. $1000 Belkin box promises wireless HD video and audio

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   ... should make the MPAA and RIAA very happy. Two models of the FlyWire will be sold.  The FlyWire, model AV69003, will retail for $999.99 and has enough power to cover the whole house.  A less ...

10. Who needs D-SUB, DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort? USB rocks!

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... RIAA/MPAA - who are very protective of high-definition content - is an ongoing process: The problem here is that it is nearly impossible to explain that DisplayLink offers protected display path, we were ...

11. TorrentSpy fined $110 million, files for bankrupcy

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

      The MPAA just scored a major anti-piracy victory against TorrentSpy, which once was one of the major BitTorrent indexing Website. The umbrella organization for movie industry won record damages ...

12. Box office sales set record in 2007

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... movie industry of piracy and declining movie sales, box office ticket sales reached nearly $10 billion last year, a new record. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) released its annual report ...

13. MPAA wins TorrentSpy anti-piracy battle

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Efforts by TorrentSpy.com to conceal evidence in a piracy case against the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) backfired this week when a Los Angeles judge ruled in favor of the MPAA. U.S. District ...

14. Motion Picture Association sues video download sites

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... America has filed a lawsuit against two sites that have reportedly been used to transfer illegally pirated movies. The MPAA brought the suit against Cinematube.net and Ssupload.com, seeking an injunction ...

15. Cease and desist letters backfire horribly against MPAA/AACS

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... letters in an attempt to block the spread of an encryption key.  The MPAA and the Advanced Access Content System consortium, which is responsible for protecting HD DVD and Blu-Ray discs from illegal ...

16. HP exits MCE business, continues with Apple inspired line - analyst opinion

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... is very expensive and currently the company is being sued by the DVD CCA for creating a product where you can rip DVDs (something the MPAA has been arguing about for some time), but it is simple to use ...

17. Malaysian movie pirates put out hit on sniffer dogs

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... of CD and DVD dyes typically used in mass piracy. Lucky and Flog are on loan to the Malaysian Police through a partnership with the MPAA. Police are taking the threat seriously and have put the dogs in ...

18. Scalers beat HD DVD and Blu-ray at CES 2007 - analysis

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... streams back to the studios producing content. I often wonder what would happen if the MPAA, instead of treating every legitimate customer as if they were a criminal in waiting, focused on actually selling ...

19. Hitachi offers new NAS-aimed multimedia search

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    ... different filters, other than tagged text. For example, users can search for music that is of a certain tempo, or filter out movies with specific MPAA ratings. Progressive text search entry also adds next-gen ...

20. Internet2 launches 100 Gb network

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... average rate of 6.96 Gb/s. Last year, two of the biggest entertainment organizations, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced ...

21. 80% of parents reported to pay attention to ESRB ratings

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... are similar to the movie ratings from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). Like R-rated movies, some stores prevent the selling of games rated M or above to minors. The ESRB has been at the ...

22. Judge "bullies" Grand Theft Auto maker

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... like offensive content on CDs must be marked with a warning label, and movies have MPAA guidelines, a video game is not limited by the kind of content it can have, but it must be rated accordingly. Unrated ...

23. Sixth DVD IC manufacturer hit with MPAA injunction

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... of lawsuits filed by the MPAA against Taiwanese DVD integrated circuit manufacturers. Last December, the MPAA filed lawsuits against Sunplus and competitor Cheertek for allegedly shipping ICs to player ...

24. MPAA files lawsuits against torrent, eDonkey and newsgroup sites

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) announced that is filed another wave of lawsuits against file trading sites to "shut down major pirate networks." The Motion Picture Association of America ...

25. P2P indexer arrested, server shut down, but eDonkey brays on

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... Association, the international body of movie studios for which the MPAA is one affiliate, proclaimed that Swiss officials arrested the proprietor of one of P2P service eDonkey's major indexing servers, ...

26. BitTorrent and MPAA reach agreement: Service will take down links to "illegal" content

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

      Bram Cohen, the creator of BitTorrent, and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) have agreed on a deal where illegal content will not be linked to on the www.bittorrent.com website. The ...

27. As Grokster decision nears, Hollywood talks tough

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Brief)

    ... if it doesn't then we have a whole host of other strategies to protect out interests," Dan Glickman, president of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), told a think tank gathering Tuesday. ...

28. Sweden bans downloads of copyrighted content

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      The MPAA and RIAA claim file sharing is "devastating" their owners' businesses, citing Sweden as a country where uploading and downloading from p2p networks is "rampant". The MPAA and RIAA claim ...

29. MPAA circulating draft legislation on broadcast flag

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      When we reported earlier this week that the US Court of Appeals shot down the FCC-mandated broadcast flag, we predicted that the MPAA would turn its efforts toward the US Congress in an attempt ...

30. MPAA sues TV program swappers

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... The MPAA wants to put a stop to that as well. The Motion Picture Association of America filed suit against six sites it accuses of being BitTorrent conduits for television shows. The sites sued Thursday ...

31. LokiTorrent owner to pay $1 million

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) representing Hollywood's major film studio has won a very important case against movie pirates. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) ...

32. MPAA wins file-sharing suit

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      The MPAA has a long way to go to reduce piracy, says Yankee Group senior analyst Michael Goodman. The MPAA has a long way to go to reduce piracy, says Yankee Group senior analyst Michael Goodman. ...

33. MPAA anti-piracy software not as bad as reported, but still stupid

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      We all know that it's not just that the MPAA doesn't want you watching unauthorized content on your PC, but that they're mad about whole digital media thing and they wish that, with the exception ...

34. MPAA files new film-swapping suits

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... of lawsuits against online movie-swappers on Wednesday, stepping up legal pressure on the file-trading community. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) also made available a new free software ...

35. Apple sues three over 'Tiger' Mac OS X leak

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... download technology. Last week, a host of BitTorrent server operators were sued by the Motion Picture Ass. of America (MPAA) for hosting unauthorised copies of movies. Read the complete story here. (The ...

36. MPAA to serve lawsuits on BitTorrent servers

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      The Motion Picture Ass. The Motion Picture Ass. of America (MPAA) will today launch a legal attack on BitTorrent users in a bid to prevent ripped DVDs being shared across the network. The lawsuit ...

37. MPAA takes filesharers to court

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      The Motion Picture Association of America has gone on the offensive in its battle against piracy and peer-to-peer sharing of movies, and has launched more than 200 civil suits against users it identifies ...

38. MPAA targets movie downloaders

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) plans to begin filing copyright theft lawsuits Nov. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) plans to begin filing copyright theft lawsuits ...

39. LAPD nabs pirates, 12,000 counterfeit DVDs

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      The Motion Picture Ass. The Motion Picture Ass. of America (MPAA) and the Los Angeles police this week busted a major counterfeiting operation after traffic cops were given false driver ID information. ...

40. Hollywood sues DVD-chip makers

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      The Motion Picture Ass. The Motion Picture Ass. of America (MPAA) yesterday confirmed the organisation has begun legal proceedings against two makers of DVD chip alleging that the pair's willingness ...

41. MPAA settles lawsuit against 321 Studios

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      The MPAA said that proceeds from the settlement would be used to aid the industry's continuing battle against software piracy. The MPAA said that proceeds from the settlement would be used to ...

42. DVD copying firm cedes legal battle with MPAA

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      The Motion Picture Association of America yesterday won the latest round in its ongoing battle against film piracy, with a legal settlement which saw a company which made DVD copying software close ...

43. U.S. District Court to Hear DVD Infringement Case

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... that consumers are getting a "two for one" advantage when they use 321's software. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), which represents the major Hollywood studios, claims that the studios ...

44. The Long Arm of the Law Grabs at Norway Teen Again

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... of the U.S. Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). Johansen's code has been downloaded and seen by millions of Internet readers, which has inflamed the "powers that be" in Hollywood who fear the ...

45. RIAA, Business Software Alliance and Computer Systems Policy Project Back Off on Government Interven

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... Association of America from its former allies. A spokesman for the MPAA declined to comment.  ...

46. Intel slams copy protected PCs, Senator slams Intel

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... on behalf of his MPAA and RIAA handlers would stifle growth in the marketplace, Thomas Greene writes. Entertainment industry lapdog Senator Fritz Hollings (Democrat, South Carolina) lashed out at Intel ...

47. Nintendo delays Gamecube

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Nintendo's Japanese launch of its GameCube game console, originally planned for this July, will be put off two months until mid-September. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has ...

48. Movie biz targets Gnutella

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has warned hundreds of major ISPs and universities that their networks are being used to violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act via the file-sharing ...