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• in Technology
  Blog Focus on Tech Lawsuits Aplenty
  Kindles get skipped by colleges, a town gets stripped of WiFi, and your Web content may get ripped down.
  by tuffyr / on Nov 13, 2009
• in Technology
  Blog Focus on New Media Consumption the Old-Fashioned Way
  Consume your media lazily from anywhere: the blogs tell you how!
  by tuffyr / on Nov 2, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “mpaa”

• Monday Morning JetLawg

  
  JETLawBlog: The Official Blog of the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law — Authority: 422
  In the news . . . Wired writer tries to find out if it’s possible to disappear in the digital world . England’s proposed new copyright laws are extremely controversial. Insurance company takes away Canadian woman’s long-term sick leave benefit after Facebook photos indicate she wasn’t suffering from ...
  1 day ago

• Hollywood touts ACTA

  
  p2pnet news — Authority: 613
  p2pnet news view Politics | MPAA:- With their MPAA as the front, the major Hollywood studios have escalated their efforts to force ACTA, their secret copyright ‘initiative’,  into being. “Our interests in a robust ACTA are broad, ranging from providing ex-officio authority for law enforcement and customs ...
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• It’s Alive! Hollywood Claims Pirate Bay Tracker Lives

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 435
  It’s Alive! Hollywood Claims Pirate Bay Tracker Lives : Via Threat Level . Did The Pirate Bay really shutter its tracker, as claimed on Tuesday? The Motion Picture Association doesn’t think so. Hollywood’s overseas lobbying organization claims OpenBitTorrent, billed as an independent “open tracker ...
  2 days ago

• MPAA Says Copyright-Treaty Critics Hate Hollywood

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 435
  MPAA Says Copyright-Treaty Critics Hate Hollywood : Via Threat Level . If you don’t back a copyright treaty being negotiated in secret, you must want to destroy Hollywood, its blockbuster movies and all the jobs they create. At least that’s the message from the Motion Picture Association of America. It’s ...
  2 days ago

• Another Pro-ACTA Letter from MPAA, RIAA, et al.

  
  Public Knowledge - Blogging, Events, and Action Alerts — Authority: 131
  A number of movie studios, record labels, and other copyright-holding companies (and their related trade associations) have also written a pro-ACTA letter to Congress , which I first saw posted on Ben Sheffner’s blog . Minus the bizarre “distraction” claim, it follows the same basic pattern—that ACTA will ...
  3 days ago

• Shocker: Ars, Hollywood agree on need for ACTA openness

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 758
  MPAA head Dan Glickman sent a letter yesterday to both Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and to US Trade Representative Ron Kirk in which he called for a serious US push to pass the secretive Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. Thats certainly expected—ACTA contains a host of goodies for Hollywood and the recording ...
  3 days ago

• Hollywood: Never Mind the Transparency, Heres the ACTA

  
  Public Knowledge - Blogging, Events, and Action Alerts — Authority: 131
  It’s not a surprise that the Motion Picture Association of America is a supporter of the so-called Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement , a proposed international copyright and trademark agreement that the public isn’t allowed to see. What is surprising is how willing the MPAA is to dismiss calls for an open and ...
  3 days ago

• Public Knowledge Statement on MPAA Letter Regarding Anti-Counterfeiting Treaty

  
  Public Knowledge - Blogging, Events, and Action Alerts — Authority: 131
  For Immediate Release:  November 20, 2009 Background: The Motion Picture Association Association (MPAA) yesterday sent a letter to Capitol Hill asking for more transparency for deliberations on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). A copy of the letter is ...
  3 days ago

• Selectable Output control is bad, but not worth lying about

  
  Engadget HD — Authority: 625
  Theres been an unbelievable amount of internet chatter about the MPAAs petition to the FCC that would allow them to turn off the component inputs on cable boxes on certain content . And while we dont think this is a good idea on so many levels, we arent willing to lie to garner support. But evidently others are, as ...
  3 days ago

• MPAA on ACTA

  
  Michael Geist Blog — Authority: 719
  " Outcries on the lack of transparency in the ACTA negotiations are a distraction. "
  3 days ago

• Verizon to forward RIAA warning letters (but thats all)

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 435
  Verizon to forward RIAA warning letters (but thats all) : Via Law & Disorder Section - Ars Technica . If youre a copyright owner who has gone to the trouble and expense of tracking down online copyright infringers, dont send warning letters to Verizon without striking a deal first; Verizon simply chucks them in ...
  4 days ago

• Pirate Bay Tracker Offline for Good – Though the site will continue pushing files via DHT+PEX

  
  remove the labels | Gadgets and Life — Authority: 436
  The Pirate Bay crew had already essentially been disbanded, the site dissected, and its remnants sold to a somewhat dubious company that simply wants to turn the site’s visitors into little P2P cash cows . So an announcement today over at the official Pirate Bay blog that they’re officially shutting down the ...
  5 days ago

• TPB Tracker Down for Good

  
  What The Christ? — Authority: 154
  After more than six years, the minds behind The Pirate Bay have abandoned the BitTorrent tracker, switching to a de-centralized peer to peer network called DHT that all modern torrent clients join by default, even if they aren’t downloading any torrents. TorrentFreak has the report . You can also read more ...
  5 days ago

• Free Muni WiFi Back After MPAA Shut It Down For 1 Download [Mpaa]

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 789
  Coshocton, OH has its free muni WiFi back up, less than a week after it was shut down by MPAA actions over a single illegal movie download. [ Coshocton Tribune ] (Thanks to Laurie!) (Photo: tbower )
  5 days ago

• What We’ve Forgotten about Software Maintenance, The Pirate Bay Shuts Down Its Tracker, and More

  
  The Command Line — Authority: 134
  MPAA, Sony ask courthouse to restore its wireless access Mike Masnick has the follow up at Techdirt, including that the industry folks followed up with an offer to help filter against future infringement. I think the quote from Broadband Reports has it right and I am a little less skeptical than Mike. If they can ...
  6 days ago

• Verizon to Forward Warnings from RIAA, MPAA

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 160
  Second largest phone company in the US agrees to forward notices of copyright infringement on behalf of the entertainment industry, perhaps hinting at a sign of things to come as ISPs slowly enter the world of content distribution. Perhaps hinting a sign of things to come, Verizon Communications will reportedly begin ...
  6 days ago

• MPAA/Sony Pictures Realizes That Shutting Down Muni-WiFi Over Si...

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 167
  Last week, we wrote about the ridiculous situation, whereby the MPAA had an entire muni-WiFi network shut down because one person using that system had downloaded a single film. The story ended up getting a fair amount of press, and it looks like the MPAA and Sony Pictures in particular, quickly realized that this ...
  1 week ago

• Middle-Aged Grump

  
  Extra Criticum — Authority: 117
  Ever since my parents took me to see "Angel in my Pocket" starring Andy Griffith back when I was, oh, about four years old at the Mosinee Theatre in my hometown, Ive been a fan of being in a theatre...
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• Guess what you don’t need?

  
  SeriouslyGuys — Authority: 437
  No one likes a jerk. Now, I’m not talking about a Denis Leary or Martin Lawrence type of jerk, but more of a “someone stole the teacher’s favorite ruler, so now everyone has to pay” type of jerk. Of course, no one hates these types of jerks more than Sony or the MPAA. And so, they decided to display their ...
  1 week ago

• MPAA shuts down entire towns muni WiFi over a single download

  
  fsdaily.com - Free Software News - Published news — Authority: 160
  The MPAA has successfully shut down an entire towns municipal WiFi because a single user was found to be downloading a copyrighted movie.
  1 week ago

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