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Piracy Isn’t Killing The Movie Industry, Greed Is
First off, we have to make it clear that the major movie studios are doing great at the box-office, despite movie piracy riding at an all-time high. Other parts of the movie industry, such as video rental outlets, do seem to struggle and they have the studios to thank for this, not piracy. In January of this year Warner Bros.
Continue reading »Australian ISP in court for not disconnecting users
Australia’s third-largest ISP finally found itself in court this week after film companies last year sued iiNet for not disconnecting Internet users on their say-so. The case will be a major test of Australia’s “safe harbor” copyright law that provides immunity to Internet service providers—but only those that “reasonably implement” a user termination policy for “repeat infringers.” The movie studios told Australia’s Federal Court yesterday that a one-year investigation had uncovered 97,942 examples of iiNet customers making copyrighted films available on peer-to-peer networks. 29,914 of those cases involved films at issue in the current litigation.
Continue reading »YouTube to Offer Film Rentals
Would stream movies on-demand for about $3.99 per title. YouTube is reportedly in discussions with several Hollywood studios to allow users to stream movies on-demand. Talks with Lions Gate Entertainment, Sony Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Warner Brothers are now centered around how to share revenue between them and YouTube.
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