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Tuesday, 09 September 2008 09:35 |
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Dan Glickman, C.E.O. of the Motion Picture Association of America recently answered some questions for The New York Times regarding everything from ratings to piracy and everything in between. There isn't much about the topic of copyright infringement or piracy, here is what there is
From the article:
Q: How did the M.P.A.A. estimate that “$6 billion worldwide” loss from piracy?
A: In 2005, we released the Cost of Movie Piracy Report. This report found that the major U.S. motion picture studios lost $6.1 billion to piracy worldwide. This calculation was based on the number of legitimate movies (movie tickets, DVD’s) consumers would have purchased if pirated versions were not available.
One question we often get is: Do you assume that everyone who stole a movie would have bought the movie? The answer is no. This estimate factors in the fact that it’s not a 1:1 correlation.
Q: What can you do to lower the prices of theater tickets?
A: Yes, movies aren’t the $2 and a quarter they were back in 1977, but if you take that ticket price and adjust it for inflation over the past 30 years, the average national ticket price today would be over $8. Instead, it’s just over $7. In these more challenging economic times, where the buzzword of the summer was “staycation” (vacationing at home to save money), the audience has spoken and movies have proven they continue to be a terrific value and an attractive form of entertainment.
you can read the entire article by clicking here. The article doens't talk anything else about warez, piracy, or copyright infringement but still is a good read.
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Monday, 28 July 2008 16:00 |
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In a press release from earlier today MPAA explaines its not going to sit on its behind while people profit from piracy.
I have personally been involved in lots of discussions about such movie sites as watch-movies and others where people say that its legal for them to opperate. The only thing i can say to them now is watch out for the MPAA.
“There are many people operating illegal websites like these who are profiting from the theft of protected content. We have filed several other similar lawsuits and will continue to do so in order to hold operators accountable for their illegal activities. We have every intention of shutting down these, and sites like them, for good,” said John Malcolm, Executive Vice President and Director of Worldwide Anti-Piracy Operations for the MPAA.
The MPAA is going after FOMDB.COM and MOVIERUMOR.COM for making money from advertisments while supporting the infringement of copyrights the MPAA needs to protect.
These sites offer streaming versions of movies, for "free" but make money from the advertisments.
The article states that the MPAA has filed lawsuits against seven other similar sites since June 2007, and in May of 2008, a federal judge in Los Angeles awarded multi-million dollar judgments against Showstash.com and Cinematube.com for the infringement of popular copyrighted motion pictures and television shows |
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Sunday, 27 July 2008 16:00 |
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variety.com is reporting that the MPAA plans to start a website (name not released) that will offer legal downloads/streams of movies, photos, a place to purchase tickets and more.
Since all the major studios are involved with the MPAA - we can assume they will all join in to make what could be one of the better movie sites on the net.
from the article:
"According to a studio source, the new website is a response to research that found consumers sometimes have trouble differentiating between legal and illegal ways to watch and buy movies via the Net."
An MPAA spokesman declined to comment on the plans but noted, "We're always looking for ways to provide consumers easy access to legal alternatives."
source: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117989453.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
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Sunday, 27 July 2008 16:00 |
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MPAA goes after ThePirateBay
With TorrentSpy the MPAA was accused of hiring a hacker to gain access to private corporate information, something torrestSpy tried to get thrown out of court.
Unfortintally for torrentspy a federal judge threw out TorrentSpy's hacker complaint last August, saying it was unclear whether federal wiretapping laws covered the interception of e-mails.
Robert Anderson, the hacker, has offered the MPAA information such as phone numbers, addresses, names, etc of thepiratebay owners as well.
RDean Garfield, an MPAA executive, gave the following testimony, according to the court records: "We were going to get information about the location and identity of the people who were running Torrentspy, as well as information related to a general conspiracy and relationship between Torrentspy and a number of other prominent services including ThePirateBay."
source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-9999018-93.html
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