Filed under: Audio/Video Back in September, we said it was only a matter of time before the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) went after RealDVD, the software that lets you copy entire DVDs onto your computer for personal use. Studios are currently involved in a heated lawsuit with RealNe...

p2pnet news view MPAA | RIAA News:- Did you know if you’re one in a million in China, there are 1,300 people just like you (whatever that means)? Or there are about 540,000 words in the English language? Or by 2013, a supercomputer will be built that exceeds the computational capabilities of t...

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has accused RealNetworks of destroying evidence relevant to a lawsuit over the company's DVD-copying software. The movie studios represented by the MPAA have asked for a court order requiring RealNetworks to preserve relevant documents from now on, bu...

p2pnet news view RIAA | MPAA News:- “Things may be far worse for Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMGs universally despised RIAA than we’d hoped for (sorry, expected),” p2pnet reported recently, citing RIAA staff firings. So naturally, we were wondering how things are goin...

On reading the report’s summary, there is a strong wave of deja-vu. It hardly seems like 4 years have passed similar claims put out by a UK industry group were debunked. Worse still, the same old tricks are being used again to cloud the issue. The only difference is that instead of just concen...

Generally I try to stay away from the MPAA discussion. I understand that, in theory, a rating system is pretty essential when it comes to movies, but I've seen this studio-paid puppet group bend over backwards for their clientele again and again. (Really, who does the MPAA serve? The public or the P...

When production first began on Terminator Salvation , rumors began to circulate that Warner Bros wanted the film to be PG-13. At Comic-Con last year, McG assured fans in attendance that he is under no pressure to deliver a PG-13 rating. Referring to the studio executives for this film, McG explained...

p2pnet news view Politics | RIAA | MPAA News:- Hardly was the blood dry on the Obama presidential inauguration documents when the news came that RIAA and other vested interest lawyers are to run the US Department of Justice. Now hard-core corporate entertainment industry stalwart Dianne Feinstein (s...

Filed under: Internet, News As reported earlier today on Public Knowledge, Congress passed the broadband stimulus package without an amendment proposed to allow deep packet inspection to catch, among other things, copyright violators. The amendment, which was put forth by Senator Feinstein from Cali...

Last year we took a look at the excellent research carried out by Waxy’s Andy Baio, as he provided detailed piracy stats for every Oscar-nominated movie since 2003. Andy contacted us to announce that he’s been working hard again in 2009 - we take a look at his findings. For the 2009 Osca...