May 12, 2005 12:47 PM PDT
MPAA targets TV download sites
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The trade association said that piracy of TV programming is growing quickly online, and that shows are as important to protect as big-budget films. This is the first legal action from the group that has focused most heavily on TV content.
"Every television series depends on other markets (such as) syndication and international sales to earn back the enormous investment required to produce the comedies and dramas we all enjoy," MPAA Chief Executive Officer Dan Glickman said in a statement. "Those markets are substantially hurt when that content is stolen."
The latest round of suits retains a focus on BitTorrent technology, which has been widely used online to distribute movies and films.
The suits are focused on the sites that serve as traffic directors for BitTorrent swaps, rather than on individual computer users uploading and downloading content. The MPAA also has sued individuals, but has not said how many people have been targeted.
The six sites sued Thursday include ShunTV, Zonatracker, Btefnet, Scifi-Classics, CDDVDHeaven and Bragginrights.
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Well this is news to myself as the owner of CDDVDHeaven.
The site I run does nothing wrong as the laws stands at this time and no pirated material is avilable for download direct from the site.
The site dos no more wrong then say Yahoo or other search's a user can carry out.
Hell you can even download the same links via Yahoo.
As the lastest rounds with grockster have shown and the last court ruling that the client and trackers are not to be held liable for what it's users do with it.
The site was started by meself about 2yr's ago as a way to learn more about the internet side of things as in my normal work i only ever work with the hardware side of computing.
The site was started off in simple HTML and as i i gained more experance in php and sql the site grew to what it is now.
I use the site as a way to teach myself coding and other stuff and offer it to be used by the public.
Dave @ CDDVDHeaven.
Well this is news to myself as the owner of CDDVDHeaven.
The site I run does nothing wrong as the laws stands at this time and no pirated material is avilable for download direct from the site.
The site dos no more wrong then say Yahoo or other search's a user can carry out.
Hell you can even download the same links via Yahoo.
As the lastest rounds with grockster have shown and the last court ruling that the client and trackers are not to be held liable for what it's users do with it.
The site was started by meself about 2yr's ago as a way to learn more about the internet side of things as in my normal work i only ever work with the hardware side of computing.
The site was started off in simple HTML and as i i gained more experance in php and sql the site grew to what it is now.
I use the site as a way to teach myself coding and other stuff and offer it to be used by the public.
Dave @ CDDVDHeaven.