This page contains all the news items for the tag "Movies" for the month of March 2012. To view all news items without being the current tag filter, please click here.
Allegations surface that a News Corp subsidiary may have been involved in a "dirty-tricks" campaign against pay-TV rivals, including promoting and enabling the piracy of competitor's services ... Read more ...
Evidence of fake settlement letters threatening Megaupload users with thousand dollar lawsuits have emerged, while the MPAA wants Megaupload users data, but not to sue individuals ... Read more ...
Google files "friend of the court" brief to support Hotfile's, and potentially Megaupload's, argument that their business model should be protected under the DMCA, while RapidShare may face a court ruling that forces it to spy on all user uploads ... Read more ...
The music industry's copyright losses calculations now mean that your typical iPod Classic can now store $8 billion worth of pirated music, says the founder of Rhapsody in a TED speech that questions the notion of "Copyright Maths" ... Read more ...
The new iPad's "higher than Blu-ray" resolution perhaps deserves a slightly higher resolution video format from Apple to take full advantage of the high-def screen ... Read more ...
Warner Bros. wants to make DVD owners go to a physical store and pay to get a digital version of the movie they already paid for, and Public Knowledge says this is exactly why DVD ripping should be granted a legal exemption under current copyright laws ... Read more ...
The MPAA requests a summary judgement in its lawsuit against Hotfile due to what they say are the similarities between Hotfile and Megaupload, while the EFF lambasts Warner Bros. for abusing Hotfile's anti-piracy tools ... Read more ...
From Germans having to rely on the Chinese to get more Internet freedom, to Game of Thrones episode hunting on the Internet, access, or the lack of it to legal content, remains a key web piracy driver on the Internet ... Read more ...