News "Movies" January 2012 News Archive

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Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 14th January 2012

Posted by: Sean F

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 14th January 2012 ... Read more ...

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2012

Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 7th January 2012

Posted by: Sean F

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 7th January 2012 ... Read more ...

Jan

2012

Was Megaupload's New Pro-Artist Distribution Model The Real Reason Behind Shut Down?

Posted by: Sean F

Megaupload's intentions to launch a new service that would see artists sell directly to fans, and cutting out the major music labels, might have given the music industry extra reason to be happy to see Megaupload shut down by the FBI ... Read more ...

Jan

2012

Petition Asks White House To Investigate MPAA Bribery Claim

Posted by: Sean F

White House's petition website used again, this time to call for an investigation into MPAA's Chris Dodd for bribery claims, after the former senator threatened to stop writing checks for politicians that did not come out to support SOPA/PIPA ... Read more ...

Jan

2012

Anger From Users Of Megaupload's Legitimate Service, While Fear Grips Industry

Posted by: Sean F

Users who used Megaupload's services legitimately are shocked and angered by the closure of the website on Thursday ... Read more ...

Jan

2012

Anti-SOPA 'Blackout' Forces Political Back Downs, As MPAA Attacks 'Dangerous Gimmick'

Posted by: Sean F

Thousands of websites take part in a planned day of action, protesting the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act, as politicians start to distance themselves from the bill ... Read more ...

Jan

2012

MPAA Attacks Ars Technica for 'Challenging Efforts To Curb Content Theft'

Posted by: Sean F

MPAA attacks article showing that it misleads on piracy loss figures, and labels tech blog Ars Technica as being pro piracy ... Read more ...

Jan

2012

Hollywood's Own Research Firm: Content Owners To Blame For Piracy, SOPA/PIPA Wrong

Posted by: Sean F

Research firm Envisional, previously hired by NBC Universal to conduct research on web piracy, says that content owners should blame themselves for web piracy, and has revealed that the firm tried to convince content owners that SOPA/PIPA "is not the way to go" ... Read more ...

Jan

2012

UltraViolet Gets More Backers, May Lose One

Posted by: Anne N

Samsung and Amazon jump on the UltraViolet bandwagon, while Netflix may be going the other way ... Read more ...

Jan

2012

Digital Streaming Up, While Packaged Media Revenue Declines

Posted by: Anne N

Spending on Blu-ray, digital media up in 2011, as overall consumer spending dipped slightly, The Digital Entertainment Group reveals ... Read more ...

Jan

2012

Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 31st December 2011

Posted by: Sean F

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 31st December 2011 ... Read more ...

Jan

2012

Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 24th December 2011

Posted by: Sean F

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 24th December 2011 ... Read more ...

Jan

2012

Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 17th December 2011

Posted by: Sean F

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 17th December 2011 ... Read more ...

Jan

2012

MPAA Conning Congress On Piracy Losses, Says Cato Instititute, GAO

Posted by: Sean F

The MPAA may be double, or even triple, counting losses attributed to piracy, in order to scare the US government into implementing draconian copyright laws ... Read more ...

Jan

2012

Movie Box Office Down For 2011, Critic Roger Ebert Refuses To Blame Piracy

Posted by: Sean F

Movie ticket sales are down in North America for 2011, but film veteran Roger Ebert says the blame is not with web piracy ... Read more ...

Jan

2012

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