This page contains all the news items for the tag "Movies" for the month of September 2011. To view all news items without being the current tag filter, please click here.
A new report suggests that DVD recorders (and players) may be on the way out, but this does not spell the end for the DVD disc itself ... Read more ...
In Italy, MPs seek to introduce a law that will blacklist users and prevent them from going online based on a single allegation of copyright infringement, while just a single allegation is putting the Swedish Film Institute in big trouble, as their IP address has been caught pirating films ... Read more ...
Lobbying efforts have intensified in the last quarter as the RIAA, MPAA, and even RapidShare, spend millions to get politicians to support their agendas ... Read more ...
Hotfile strikes back at one of the Hollywood studios that has sued the file hosting company for copyright infringement, by claiming Warner Bros. abused Hotfile's anti-piracy tool and tried to profit from removing files, including legal ones, it did not even own ... Read more ...
BREIN wants PayPal and other payment providers to cease providing services to websites that it alleges are offering pirated movies, while also asking payment providers to help identify the operators of such websites - all without having to go through the normal legal process ... Read more ...
The MPAA says that every pirate that stops downloading would otherwise spend $1,000 per year buying legal stuff, and that 13% of all American adults are movie/TV pirates ... Read more ...
Wikileaks provides details of law enforcement tactics in taking down piracy topsites, including getting content holders to provide re-release content to gain trust of topsite operators ... Read more ...