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Film cartel wants BT access to filesharing blocked
THE US FILM MAFIAA, otherwise known at the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has put down its popcorn and fired some legal briefs in the direction of British Telecom (BT).
The European arm of the MPAA has filed for an injunction against the UK telecoms provider as it seeks to block access to a website that links users to the filesharing of movies and television shows.
This might sound like something that the Internet performs on its own, but that hasn't stopped the MPAA from considering how best to stop its content from ever being seen by anyone who doesn't pay the full box office price for the privilege. Or at least buy or rent the overpriced DVD.
The MPAA is using part 97A of the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act to try to force BT into blocking Newzbin2, which is an offshore link sharing but not content sharing website.
It is apparently not the first time that the MPAA has acted in this way, as it already has an injunction against a company called Newzbin, which went into liquidation just before the launch of the rather similarly named new target of the MPAA's wrath.
Announcing the action in a statement, Chris Marcich, president and managing director for the MPAA in Europe said, "The continued operation of Newzbin2 flies in the face of the previous judgment by the High Court and therefore we feel it is necessary to invoke 97A to seek the co-operation of the Internet Service Provider, in this case BT, through a court order to stop the infringing activity via their services."
Newzbin2 is not only snatching food away from the mouths of Hollywood moguls' babies, but it's also ruining the livelihoods of smaller, independent media producers, added John McVay, the CEO of PACT, the producers' alliance for cinema and television.
"PACT supports today's announcement", he said. "It is a shame that a legal action has to be taken, but illegal websites such as Newzbin2 pose a grave threat to our membership who do not have the resources to combat online copyright infringement."
The MPAA and friends are calling for cooperation from BT and others in the fight against alleged copyright infringement, but they appear to be only too happy to unleash their lawyers, too. µ
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Whats with the sneaky hidden link to bloody yahoo doing on your site??? highlight news2bin and lo and behold all of a sudden a Yahoo virus/search window opens
Not good Time to fix the hidden scripts
So the film industry uses locations, backgrounds or concepts and random people in nearly every movie / film / doco . Are they paying cities,towns ,businesses, building owners and random people, fees for using those images or is it ok to thieve all those images without paying.
Awesome, a new site to check out, newsbin2.
Only downside is it looks like they want you to pay to join their site to download their files. No thank you, I prefer free.
Thepiratebay.org
Isohunt.com
eztv.it
All publicity is good publicity!
Thanks MPAA for providing a global free advert for Newszbin. I've just visited it and it appears an excellent download site that I will be using from now on. I'll also be and sharing the site info.
You CANNOT stop people accessing any file shareing sites because even if BT or indeed any ISP blocks the site then we can just use a proxy to access it or the site(s) in question could just change their domain - simples!
If you want to stop "illegal" downloads of movies etc then setup a site where people can download them legally at a sensible price. Its not even the fault of ISP's so I dont know why your going after them..go after and shutdown the website(s) in question. Its not that hard to have a website shutdown because I had a site shutdown once for hosting pirate copies of my software and all I did was report the site to its web host and 24 hours later it was shutdown...no cost..no legal action..easy. Whats the problem?
I think people should sue them for the crap they put out
until today i hadn't heard of Newzbin but after having a look i shall be using it on a regular basis now. nice one MPAA i really appreciate the tip off and i shall be sharing it all over twitter, facebook et al.
Cool a new source, thank you mpaa for introducing me to news2bin.
Any other suggestions you guys have for us?
I can agree with that part of the statement. It is indeed shameful that the MPAA is still mired in 20th-century behavior when it desperately needs to come up with something new if it does not want to go the way of the dinosaur.
Keep flailing about, MPAA ! At least your death throes are a bit theatrical.