News "Movies" October 2011 News Archive

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MPAA Granted Permanent Injunction Against Video Streaming Website Zediva

Posted by: Sean F

Zediva will have to cease operations immediately and pay the MPAA $1.8m in damages, as a judge rules against their business model ... Read more ...

Oct

2011

BitTorrent Admins Could Face 6 Years Prison, As Studios Claim Damages Of $1.25B

Posted by: Sean F

Movie studios claim $1.25 billion in damages against Russian couple who ran the Interfilm BitTorrent tracker ... Read more ...

Oct

2011

Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 15th October 2011

Posted by: Sean F

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 15th October 2011 ... Read more ...

Oct

2011

Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 8th October 2011

Posted by: Sean F

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 8th October 2011 ... Read more ...

Oct

2011

20% Are Watching Web Content On Their TVs, Survey Finds

Posted by: Anne N

One in five in the United States are watching web content on their TVs, via services like Netflix and Hulu, and devices such as game consoles and Blu-ray players ... Read more ...

Oct

2011

Anti-Piracy Firm AiPlex: Requesting Bloggers To Remove Articles Seen As 'Negative'

Posted by: Sean F

Digital Digest receives take-down notice from anti-piracy firm AiPlex, asking us to remove an article from last year that talked about the brief cyber-war between Anonymous and AiPlex, over claims that the anti-piracy firm had used illegal tactics in their war against piracy websites ... Read more ...

Oct

2011

White House Instrumental In Getting ISP Deal For RIAA/MPAA

Posted by: Sean F

Freedom of Information request reveals emails that show the friendly relationship between the Obama administration and the lobbying arms of the music and movie industries, the RIAA and MPAA ... Read more ...

Oct

2011

Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 1st October 2011

Posted by: Sean F

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 1st October 2011 ... Read more ...

Oct

2011

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

Posted by: Sean F

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

Oct

2011

Piracy Not The Biggest Threat, Says Miramax, Netflix Chiefs, Digital Monopolies Are

Posted by: Jason F

Miramax's CEO and Netflix chief content officer warn the movie industry that they need to embrace innovation and competition, or the industry will face the same fate as the music industry ... Read more ...

Oct

2011

'The Hurt Locker' Mass Lawsuits - 22,000 Defendants Dismissed

Posted by: Sean F

Mass copyright lawsuit sees mass dismissal, as The Hurt Locker producers complain that ISPs aren't helping them to identify users quickly enough ... Read more ...

Oct

2011

Copyright Lawsuits Come To Australia

Posted by: Jason F

Mass copyright lawsuits comes to Australia, with Exetel boss revealing approaches by firm Movie Rights Group to seek the details of up to 9,000 Australians ... Read more ...

Oct

2011

Canada's DMCA, Ripping Now Illegal, "notice-and-notice", And Hollywood Is Happy

Posted by: Sean F

Canada is set to reform its copyright laws, to bring in US style anti-circumvention rules which would take away existing consumer rights when it comes to copying and backing up copy protected content they've legally purchased ... Read more ...

Oct

2011

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