Illegal movie downloads on the rise, says the MPAA

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US illegal downloads on the rise

US illegal downloads on the rise 01/16/2004 11:02 AM
The number of people downloading songs illegally rises after a six-month slump, US analysts say.

MPAA: Movie downloading is new piracy
plague

MPAA: Movie downloading is new piracy
plague 07/09/2004 01:30 PM
The Motion Picture Association of America Inc. (MPAA) warned against a "growing global epidemic" of movie piracy over the Internet this week, citing a survey of Internet users in which nearly one in four respondents had illegally downloaded a movie online. The study, conducted by online research company OTX, queried 3,600 Net users in eight countries, and was cited by the MPAA as the harbinger of the tough times the industry faces ahead in grappling with online piracy.

Illegal Music Downloads Uptick

Illegal Music Downloads Uptick 01/17/2004 10:58 PM
After months in decline, file sharing is on the rise again.

Poll shows only 29% of kids worry about
illegal downloads!

Poll shows only 29% of kids worry about
illegal downloads! 05/21/2004 04:10 AM
In a survey of 8-18 year old's who download music over the Internet there is a trend that the RIAA...

US student awarded patent to prevent
illegal downloads

US student awarded patent to prevent
illegal downloads 05/06/2004 11:40 AM
Computer Shopper May 6 2004 4:13PM GMT

Is It Illegal To Order A Movie From
Overseas?

Is It Illegal To Order A Movie From
Overseas? 12/17/2003 01:13 PM
Earlier this week, we had the story of Miramax sending out threatening letters to a movie review site that simply linked to a site that used to sell movies that had been released in Asia, but not in the US. So, now, Wired News is exploring the tricky legal question of whether or not you're allowed to buy foreign DVDs of movies not released in the US. The conclusion is that you can probably buy a single copy for personal use. Maybe. You can't, however, sell it anywhere. So, if you go into a store, and they offer films (or, I imagine, music) that were released for sale outside of this country, it could be illegal to buy them. Apparently, despite having this nice global economy we're all supposed to be a part of, intellectual property law still means you could be breaking the law if you are buying and selling products not from this country.

One day, movie downloads will be a big
business ... but for whom?

One day, movie downloads will be a big
business ... but for whom? 04/06/2005 07:35 AM
Analysis Riders and runners

Bollywood Embraces Kazaa Movie Downloads

Bollywood Embraces Kazaa Movie Downloads 12/23/2003 11:47 AM
MaximusTheGreat writes "While Hollywood tries to debate how to tackle P2P movie downloads, Bollywood the world's largest film industry has decided to embrace ...

AOL to offer 99 cent movie rental
downloads

AOL to offer 99 cent movie rental
downloads 01/22/2004 02:13 AM
AOL is offering its user a promotional deal that's quite the attention grabber: 99 cents for a movie rental download.

7-Eleven Will Offer Music And Movie
Downloads

7-Eleven Will Offer Music And Movie
Downloads 03/25/2005 02:18 PM

Convenience store chain 7-Eleven is determined to dip their Slurpee straws into the world of digital content, looking to offer music, movies and whatever else they can think of to their customers, saying "customers should be able to walk into a 7-Eleven store to burn their favorite songs onto a CD or download content onto their portable music player." Picture-perfect scenario: Their system allows me to bookmark a song I like on the radio so that when I go to 7-Eleven next, it asks me to confirm my song purchase when paying for gas and sends them (wirelessly) to my portable/car media player. With their talk that the digital delivery system will be viable for them within 10 years, I think they could have something that advanced up and running by then. (Thanks, Ravi!)

7-Eleven to test sale of music downloads [Reuters]

Bollywood Signs Up For Kazaa Movie
Downloads... But Not Really

Bollywood Signs Up For Kazaa Movie
Downloads... But Not Really 12/23/2003 05:39 PM
There have been a few stories about "legitimate" companies doing deals with Kazaa, but once you get past the headline, you realize that it's not true at all. Just like all those other deals the headlines trumpeting a deal between some some Bollywood film makers and Kazaa isn't really about Kazaa at all. Instead, it's a deal with Kazaa's sister company Altnet, which runs a service within Kazaa to distribute approved copy protected content. So, this isn't at all about film makers understanding the promotional value of free downloads, but rather them trying to piggyback copy protection (in this case files that supposedly "self-destruct" after a single $3 viewing) on the popularity of Kazaa. The deal isn't even that good. $3 for a product that self-destructs after a single viewing? You get a better deal going to the local video store. Meanwhile, though, they get all the publicity of having the film "offered on Kazaa". All Altnet is really doing is bolting a pay-for service (like iTunes) into Kazaa. It doesn't leverage the real benefits of a distributed file sharing network at all.

Illegal file sharing on the rise,
despite legal threats

Illegal file sharing on the rise,
despite legal threats 01/16/2004 01:00 PM
A more recent study argues that, far from being in retreat, file sharing is on the rise again.

Music downloads on the rise again

Music downloads on the rise again 04/26/2004 06:12 AM
SiliconValley.com Apr 26 2004 10:03AM GMT

Netflix, TiVo to join forces for movie
downloads

Netflix, TiVo to join forces for movie
downloads 09/07/2004 10:36 AM
Newsweek reports that Netflix and TiVo are set to announce a partnership that will allow subscribers to both services to download their Netflix DVDs directly into their TiVo boxes, instead of receiving them in the mail...

Music downloads on the rise again
(SiliconValley.com)

Music downloads on the rise again
(SiliconValley.com) 04/26/2004 06:08 AM
SiliconValley.com - Internet music downloading is rising again, even as the recording industry's relentless anti-piracy campaign has scared millions of adults away from unauthorized file-swapping networks.

Music downloads and movie tickets get
Christmas Day boost online

Music downloads and movie tickets get
Christmas Day boost online 12/30/2004 09:56 PM
InternetRetailer.com Dec 31 2004 1:34AM GMT

Legal song downloads rise tenfold

Legal song downloads rise tenfold 08/21/2004 12:59 AM
News.bbc.co.uk - Fri Aug 20, 11:05 am GMT

Mozilla Downloads Rise Following US-CERT
Recommendation to Drop IE

Mozilla Downloads Rise Following US-CERT
Recommendation to Drop IE 07/02/2004 09:19 PM

Downloads rise as file traders seek new
venues

Downloads rise as file traders seek new
venues 04/26/2004 11:37 AM
While the number of people downloading music has increased, they're turning to alternatives to avoid the wrath of the record industry, a study shows.

Sony plans to out-apple Apple with
online movie downloads

Sony plans to out-apple Apple with
online movie downloads 03/31/2005 05:18 PM
Sony plans to begin making some of its movie library available online. Will it catch on in the same way iTMS did with music?

Illegal immigrants, illegal aliens and
the undocumented

Illegal immigrants, illegal aliens and
the undocumented 01/24/2004 07:13 PM
It's only used by frothing-at-the-mouth xenophobes. Not that there's a shortage of them. Google yields 242,000 Web sites where "illegal aliens" appears. ...

Chinese Movie Industry Recognizes Movie
Watching Is A Social Experience

Chinese Movie Industry Recognizes Movie
Watching Is A Social Experience 03/22/2005 05:03 PM
Yesterday we noted that the MPAA and movie theater owners were whini ng about how much people coming in an taping movies was hurting their business. The obvious response, we pointed out, is to recognize that going to the movies is a social experience. It's not just about the content (though, that is important), but the overall experience. If they improved that, then people would want to go -- even if they could score the same movie off the internet or a cheap DVD bought off the street. While the folks in Hollywood refuse to entertain this idea, someone (anonymously) in the comments to that story pointed to an article in China noting that this is exactly what Chinese movie theaters have done. After years of declining attendance, they finally shaped up and made going to the movies cool again. They improved the overall experience, putting in better equipment and more comfortable seats. They improved the sound and the lighting as well. It sounds like they also made some theaters to be more like bars, to help attract young adults away from traditional bars. Yet the supposedly "creative" movie people in Hollywood insist "nothing can be done" to get people into the theater.

Oil futures rise above $44 a barrel Best
Buy 3Q earnings rise 21 percent Stocks
extend rally with mo

Oil futures rise above $44 a barrel Best
Buy 3Q earnings rise 21 percent Stocks
extend rally with mo 12/19/2004 03:28 PM
Seattletimes.nwsource.com - Wed Dec 15, 11:20 pm GMT

Telus targets 28% rise in 2004 profit
per share on 5% revenue rise, cost cuts

Telus targets 28% rise in 2004 profit
per share on 5% revenue rise, cost cuts 12/20/2003 09:51 AM
Canadian Press Dec 20 2003 9:07AM ET

MPAA cam

MPAA cam 06/17/2005 05:09 PM
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is paying the Los Angeles police department to install cameras to crack down on DVD bootleggers. So far four cameras have been installed and six more are on the way. Although the LAPD refuses to say where the cameras are installed, but there is information on Xeni's post on Boing Boing. The post also contains funny details of their adventure.

I hadn't realized that there was DVD piracy activity in LA. I wonder how much "lost revenue" they will recoup from these cameras. I wonder what else the LAPD going to use these cameras for. Having said that, I think we probably have more cameras per square inch in Tokyo than in LA. Welcome to our world.

Xeni has filed a story with Wired News about this as well.

UPDATE:

Xeni

Hi, Joi -- Sean Bonner created some topographical maps of the site, and posted those along with more photos and his first-person account over at blogging.la. Check it out:
http: //blogging.la/archives/2005/06/sekret_location.phtml

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Be your own MPAA

Be your own MPAA 05/06/2004 12:16 AM
USA Today May 6 2004 4:19AM GMT

LokiTorrent vs. MPAA

LokiTorrent vs. MPAA 12/29/2004 10:12 PM

MPAA under new management

MPAA under new management 09/04/2004 05:11 PM

Techdirt has a great article with a lot of links to the message being put forth by Dan Glickman. He is yet another idiot in the food chain that does not understand today's technical based marketplace. As soon as they figure out how to satisfy consumers and assure fair use rights remain in place the better. I have no problem paying for content I just want it packaged in such a way that once I pay for it I never have to pay for it again ever.

Example I buy a DVD, I copy that DVD to my hard-drive, 5 years from now when I break that DVD I load that archived hard-drive and I burn a new copy for my viewing pleasure. Better yet I stream that video directly from my hard-drive to my wide screen TV.

How many cassettes do you own that you wished you could have a pristine copy of? I bet you all have a lot that went into the trash and then you re-purchased CD's of the same music? [Techdirt]

Oh, Sure, Now The MPAA Settles With 321

Oh, Sure, Now The MPAA Settles With 321 08/10/2004 01:58 PM
Sometimes you wonder why they even bothered. After completely stompin g 321 Software out of business by saddling them with lawsuits claiming their useful software was a tool of pirates, rather than for backing up what people legally owned, now the MPAA announces that they've "settled" with the company. Seems like a Michael Corleone-style settlement. Meanwhile, Jack Valenti gets in a bogus quote about how this shows that there's no leniency for breaking copyright laws. Of course, there's never been any proof that anyone using 321's software broke copyright laws - which is something 321 showed by offerin g a $10,000 reward for anyone who could find a "pirated" DVD made using 321's software.

Debunking the MPAA

Debunking the MPAA 06/05/2005 11:24 PM

BitTorrent Facilitating Illegal File Swapping of Star Wars On Day of Opening

“Statement by MPAA President Dan Glickman

Washington, D.C. - - Responding to news reports today that BitTorrent is already facilitating the illegal file sharing of the final Star Wars episode, Revenge of the Sith which opens in theaters today, Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) President and CEO Dan Glickman made the following statement:

‘There is no better example of how theft dims the magic of the movies for everyone than this report today regarding BitTorrent providing users with illegal copies of Revenge of the Sith. The unfortunate fact is this type of theft happens on a regular basis on peer to peer networks all over the world.

Fans have been lined up for days to see Revenge of the Sith. To preserve the quality of movies for fans like these and so many others, we must stop these Internet thieves from illegally trading valuable copyrighted materials on-line.

If piracy and those who profit from it are allowed to flourish, they will erode an engine of economic growth and job creation; undermine legitimate businesses that strive to unite technology and content in innovative and legal ways and limit quality and consumer choice.’…

‘My message to illegal file swappers everywhere is plain and simple: You are stealing, it is wrong and you are not anonymous,’ said Glickman. ‘In short, you can click, but you can't hide. There are lots of ways to legally download our products through companies like CinemaNow, Movielink, Ruckus and others.’ ” [MPAA Press Release in Word document format only, via the Interesting People mailing list]

This statement would indeed be alarming, if it wasn’t for the fact that the original copy leaked onto BitTorrent was stolen by someone associated with the film and if “Revenge of the Sith” hadn’t made $50 million the first day alone. Glickman shoots himself in the foot by noting that the movie was pirated and yet “fans have been lined up for days to see” it. He wants to have his cake (fans lined up everywhere!) and eat it, too (but piracy “will erode an engine of economic growth and job creation”).

Explain to me again why Congress listens to him? Oh yeah - the money.

Hopefully they’ll cry wolf one too many times, and they and their record profits will be seen for what they really are – a successful business that needs no further legislation from our government. The legal business models Glickman refers are indeed working and with time, they will grow into a thriving business if they stop concentrating on disabling customer playback devices with overly-restrictive DRM and concentrate instead on producing a good product. Just like every other business out there.

Stolen a film? MPAA wants to know

Stolen a film? MPAA wants to know 07/08/2004 05:33 PM
One in four online has illegally downloaded a feature film--and it's slicing into box-office and DVD sales, industry group says.

MPAA could learn from RIAA

MPAA could learn from RIAA 07/14/2004 06:51 PM
CNET Jul 14 2004 11:23PM GMT

MPAA Gets New Top Paid Shill

MPAA Gets New Top Paid Shill 07/01/2004 03:41 PM
Well, it's not surprising (and it might barely be worth noting), but the MPAA has officially named Dan Glickman to replace Jack Valenti as their new top paid shill. Glickman, of course, says his number one goal is to "fight piracy," rather than, say, figuring out a way to embrace new technologies to help increase the movie industry's market. Not that something like that would ever happen. While the news reports note the fact that Glickman, the former USDA secretary, is a politician more than a Hollywood insider, that's not really that newsworthy. His job is to lobby, so of course they want a political insider. Besides, he isn't completely unknown in Hollywood. In the past he's lobbied for Disney and his son is a successful movie producer. Either way, it is, as everyone expected, more of the same.

A kinder, gentler MPAA

A kinder, gentler MPAA 12/29/2003 12:12 PM
The Motion Picture Association of America has said that while movie piracy is a concern for the trade group, they will not pursue suspected individuals with as much furor as does the RIAA.

MPAA Sued Over DVD Screener Ban

MPAA Sued Over DVD Screener Ban 11/25/2003 10:22 PM

Memo to the New Head of the MPAA

Memo to the New Head of the MPAA 01/06/2004 05:42 AM
Trading movies digitally still isn't easy, but Hollywood has a lot less time to act than it thinks. Here's some advice to help it avoid the fate of the music industry. By Wired magazine's Chris Anderson.

FCC Adopts MPAA broadcast flag

FCC Adopts MPAA broadcast flag 11/05/2003 10:56 AM
There goes the neighborhood I personally think that by forcing this the FCC will essentially eliminate the fair use standard,...

The MPAA speaks about Emanuel Goldstein.

The MPAA speaks about Emanuel Goldstein. 12/28/2003 06:33 AM
The MPAA speaks about Emanuel Goldstein. For a very long time, the MPAA has been suing the website and magazine 2600 for posting the DeCSS source code on its website. This is a FAQ from the MPAA's homepage. The incredible irony in seeing the words "Emanuel Goldstein" mentioned brings to mind (obviously to many of you) 1984.

RIAA and MPAA take lawsuits to Internet2

RIAA and MPAA take lawsuits to Internet2 04/13/2005 05:22 PM
Since their litigation strategy is by all accounts a resounding success, the content associations are now going after students on the new high-speed network.
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24-Hour Movie People

24-Hour Movie People 01/01/2004 08:00 AM
Could you write, cast, shoot, score, and edit an entire movie in a day? (Wired via MyAppleMenu)

Wired: 24-Hour Movie People (or, How I
Spent The Night With Choire Sicha)

Wired: 24-Hour Movie People (or, How I
Spent The Night With Choire Sicha) 12/28/2003 08:01 PM
Choire "Gawker Guy" Sicha writes:

Recently I was invited to spend the night with two lovely ladies, writer Xeni Jardin and photographer Aliya Naumoff. We didn't sleep for a day and a half! Oh, the hilarity. Anyway, the result: a documentation of the 24-hour digital movie-making contest here in New York. To celebrate, here's a shot of Xeni, who by that point was powered solely by espresso and her iron will, stealth-discoing our non-sleep-deprived editor Rob [Levine] at the Wired offices.

24-Hour Movie People, Wired, January 2004

ToS for Universal's free movie
screenings

ToS for Universal's free movie
screenings 12/22/2004 01:30 AM
Xeni Jardin: BoingBoing reader Steve Portigal says, "I received a free pass for a preview screening of the new film In Good Company and thought the warning info at the bottom might be of interest. Sure, we've heard of this happening, but I don't know if anyone has offered the actual text of the "agreement":

This pass is the property of Universal Pictures which reserves the right to admit, revoke admission or refuse access to the theatre at the discretion of an authorized representative. Please arrive early! Seats are not guaranteed, are limited to theatre capacity and are first-come, first-served. EXCEPT FOR MEMBERS OF THE REVIEWING PRESS. CHILDREN ARE STRONGLY DISCOURAGED. NO ADMITTANCE ONCE SCREENING HAS BEGUN. This theatre is not responsible for seating over capacity. This Ticket Is Not For Resale.

NO RECORDING

This screening will be monitored for unauthorized recording. By attending, you agree not to bring any recording device into the theatre and you consent to physical search of your belongings and person for recording devices. If you attempt to enter with a recording device, you will be denied admission. If you attempt to use a recording device, you consent to your immediate removal from the theatre and forfeiture of the device. Unauthorized recording will be reported to law enforcement and may subject you to criminal and civil liability.

ToS for Universal's free movie
screenings -- Update

ToS for Universal's free movie
screenings -- Update 12/27/2004 02:56 AM
Xeni Jardin: A bit of nerd ephemera. Following up on this earlier BoingBoing post, reader Jeff "Koganuts" Koga says, "Here's a ToS for Universal's free movie screenings. I was finally able to scan in the invite I received for the first advance screening of Serenity (which won't be out in theatres until next September)." Link to scanned invite: sid e one, sid e two.

Free File: Flash Movie Extract Pilot

Free File: Flash Movie Extract Pilot 08/19/2004 11:06 PM
G4 Tech TV Aug 20 2004 2:56AM GMT

The On2 VP6 Video Codec & Free Movie To
Kill A Lawyer

The On2 VP6 Video Codec & Free Movie To
Kill A Lawyer 01/04/2004 05:52 PM

Churches offer free movie to boost flock
(Reuters)

Churches offer free movie to boost flock
(Reuters) 03/09/2004 12:10 AM
Reuters - Four Church of England parishes are trying to boost their congregations by offering free cinema tickets to watch Mel Gibson's controversial movie "The Passion of Christ".

Illegal movie downloads on the rise, says the MPAA

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