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Following similar actions taken by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) filed lawsuits yesterday against students at 12 universities for allegedly violating copyright...
...MPAA is targeting users who allegedly have shared movies illegally over the Internet, while the RIAA’s suits focus on copyright violations concerning online music sharing...
...press release Tuesday, the MPAA said that such copyright violations perpetrated over the Internet have become a serious problem on college campuses...
Like the RIAA, the MPAA specifically cited file-sharing applications such as “i2hub” that take advantage of special networks used by academic institutions...
...turbocharged speeds. With more folks logging onto the Internet via broadband connections, online trading of movies, TV shows and porn is surging. Downloads of feature films alone are up 175% in the past year, says BigChampagne, another Web-tracking firm. In response, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) recently filed dozens of civil suits against tracker sites in the U.S. and Britain, as well as criminal complaints against sites in France, Finland and the Netherlands. The industry is hoping that in a case scheduled for next month, the U.S. Supreme Court will rule against firms that produce file-sharing...