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Another casualty of the copyright police. Source : BitTorrent search site IsoHunt will shut down, pay MPAA $110 million | Ars Technica I wonder how long till The Pirate Bay follows suit.

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) fell victim to the wrath of 4chan members this weekend. A series of coordinated DDoS attacks against the media trade groups' websites temporarily brought them to their knees. 4chan...

U.S. Court Rules Consumers Never Have the Right to Copy DVD Movies Making one copy is stealing one copy, says MPAA This week a landmark verdict was handed down to RealNetworks with deep implications for fair use and personal property in America. The ruling wasn't about filesharing, piracy, or...

OK, this is fun. I just stumbled (via Digg) onto MPAA’s webpage where they link all the resources for legal downloading, buying or renting movies. The fun part is that they managed to mess up all the links on the page. Sure, tech savvy folks will know where they messed up: instead of “a...

Hollywood movie studios launched new legal action Tuesday against operators of sites that help connect people to movies on three major peer-to-peer file-sharing networks. In the United States and the United Kingdom, the Motion Picture Association of America, the main lobbying arm of U.S...