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MPAA hatches plan to revive SOPA
Public Knowledge President Gigi Sohn said that it was amazing that a mere two months after 14 million people voiced their opposition to SOPA and PIPA, that the head of the Motion Picture Association of America said the flawed law could be reworked in the back rooms of Washington. -
Dotcom confident copyright cartel is on the back foot
Controversial MegaUpload boss Kim Dotcom found himself in a spot of bother when Big Content decided he was the next target they had to go after. But, in an interview, Dotcom seems outwardly confident that the US indictment is on the losing path. -
Pirate bay building drones
Notorious filesharing group The Pirate Bay has come up with a way it can see off Big Content. Writing in its blog, the outfit is planning to stick its servers into high flying drones and shift its front-end proxy servers into the sky. -
Movie spending on the rise despite piracy fears
Despite widespread concernsin the film industry of a decline, it appears overall, celluloid spending is set to increase. -
If you disagree with the RIAA, you are a criminal
"How many of those e-mails were from the same people who attacked the Web sites of the Department of Justice, the Motion Picture Association of America, my organization and others as retribution for the seizure of Megaupload, an international digital piracy operation?" he said. -
BTJunkie shuts before Big Content gets it
A popular file-sharingindexing site, BTJunkie, has voluntarily shut down over fears that Big Content has taken control of the US police force. -
RIAA opposes more reasonable anti-piracy bill
A new anti-piracy bill that is going through Congress has not got the backing of the Recording Industry Association of America. -
MPAA admits it doesn't get the internet
Suits at the Motion Picture Association of America have had to admit that this internet thing is too fly for them and they have to negotiate with its owner Google or shut it down. -
MPAA boss should be fired
Wikipedia founderJimmy Wales has waded into Motion Picture Association of America chairman Christopher Dodd saying that he should be fired. -
Leaked cable shows US is a tool of Big Content
The US embassy cables noted that the case was filed by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and its international affiliate, the Motion Picture Association (MPA), but neither wanted the fact to be broadcasted. -
MPAA boss calls for bribed politicians to toe the line
An online petition has called for a Senate investigation after the Motion Picture Association of America called for its bribed sock puppets in Washington to toe the line and not bow to pressure from the great unwashed. -
CBS is offline and its servers are wiped
The CBS hack was part of a campaign of denial-of-service attacks which started on Thursday. So far Anonymous has hit the websites of the Department of Justice, Universal Music, the Recording Industry Association of America, and the Motion Picture Association of America. -
Politicians abandon Big Content
Online protests against Big Content taking over the US Justice system appear to have got the message to Washington politicians that the world is pretty hacked off with them. -
Movie studios are killing movies, not pirates
Top movie writer David Germain said that the reason why this year's box office receipts are below last year is not because of piracy, but because the studios did not have a successful blockbuster. -
Senator plans to read 100,000 names against US anti-piracy bill
Under new legislation, sites which have been accused of a widely-defined copyright infringement could be easily taken offline. While this has been warmly received by organisations such as the Motion Picture Association of America and the Screen Actors Guild, the wider community is up in arms. -
File sharing outfit sues Warner Brothers
A file-sharing company is suing Warner Brothers, claiming that the studio abused a tool it had set up to counter software piracy. -
Hurt Locker goes for dubious award
The makers of Hurt Locker are not satisfied with an Oscar. They want to break all records for the most people sued by a movie maker. -
MPAA puts Google on its black list
Google is in trouble.Big Content has reacted badly to Eric Schmidt's comments in the UK about ignoring government demands to block file sharing websites.
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