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  | RIAA, MPAA Converging on Political Conventions Found at 8/26/2008 via blog.wired.com
The Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America are well-known for their thousands of copyright infringement lawsuits. But they're also Hollywood's biggest lobbying organizations. The pair have descended upon Denver for the Democratic National Convention and are headed to the Republican's convention next week in Minnesota -- in a likely move to bolster ... More...
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| MPAA Waffling on Piracy Costs; RIAA says Illicit CDs worth $13.74 each Found at 8/19/2008 via blog.wired.com
The Motion Picture Association of America says a pirated DVD is valued at $19. The Recording Industry Association says an illicit CD is worth nearly $14. The lobbying groups say they lose billions annually to piracy, and tout the figures to lawmakers in a bid for stricter regulations. More...
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| Mpaa Describes Operation Takedown Found at 8/19/2008 via www.contactmusic.com
The MPAA on Monday announced the results of what it called Operation Takedown, a crackdown on piracy conducted in 12 countries of the Asia-Pacific region between May and ... More...
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| MPAA Helped Cops Nab Hundreds of Movie Pirates Found at 8/18/2008 via blog.wired.com
The Motion Picture Association of America said Monday it assisted authorities in arresting 461 movie pirates in China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and Korea. About 1,000 optical disc burners were also seized in the three-month operation that ended in July. Nearly five dozen pirates were nabbed using a camcorder in the cinema, the MPAA said. More...
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| Spying as a business model. Will these guys get a clue already? Found at 8/18/2008 via news.cnet.com
What all this demonstrates for the umpteenth time is that the RIAA and MPAA still show themselves to be in possession of quite the tin ear. More...
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| Porn Studios Form Their Own MPAA To Sue File Sharers [PAK] Found at 8/4/2008 via gizmodo.com
It's not that the major porn studios were alright with you torrenting porn vids online, it's that they didn't yet organize themselves to form an entity to do something about it. No longer. Think of... More...
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| MPAA Want to Bung-Up "Analog Hole," Disable Piracy-Enabling Cable Box Outputs [Mpaa] Found at 8/4/2008 via gizmodo.com
Movies movies movies... we all love a good show, but the lovely MPAA is up to some pretty strange shenanigans to ensure that you get to see some shows just the once?until they're out on DVD at... More...
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| College funding bill passed with anti-P2P provisions intact Found at 8/1/2008 via arstechnica.com
The Senate has reauthorized the Higher Education and Education Act and approved controversial new provisions that require universities to develop plans to fight on-campus copyright infringement. The MPAA plans to provide schools with a "campus briefing book" with info on the new law Read More... More...
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| Targeting Campus Piracy, Bill Passes US House Found at 7/31/2008 via 
MPAA and RIAA welcome bill's passage. More...
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| MPAA Sues Two Movie Sites Found at 7/30/2008 via www.webpronews.com
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), acting on behalf of the major studios, has filed a lawsuit in federal court in Los Angeles against Fombd.com and Movierumor.com for alleged copyright infringement. The MPAA says the sites contribute to and profit from copyright infringement by identifying, posting, and indexing links to infringing content on the Internet allowing people to then ... More...
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| Useful links site is latest MPAA piracy fight idea Found at 7/30/2008 via www.geek.com
When a lot of people think of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) they see an organization intent on a heavy-handed approach to stamping out piracy. Well, if their latest idea turns out to be legitimate they may end up producing something everyone finds useful. Ars technica has news that the MPAA is possibly working [...] More...
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| MPAA sues two movie download Web sites Found at 7/29/2008 via www.newsday.com
The Motion Picture Association of America is suing two Web sites on behalf of Hollywood movie studios, saying the sites make it easy for consumers to download movies illegally. More...
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| MPAA Attacks Movie Streaming Sites Found at 7/29/2008 via
Fomdb.com and MovieRumor.com sued. More...
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| MPAA Creating Website to Tell You Which Service Offers Which Movie [Movies] Found at 7/28/2008 via gizmodo.com
In this brave new world of digital video on demand, there's no single place that lets you watch every movie out there (other than, you know, BitTorrent). Instead, there's a smattering of offerings... More...
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| MPAA planning site to offer legit movie links Found at 7/28/2008 via arstechnica.com
The Motion Picture Association of America has launched legal attacks against P2P sites, has promoted Internet filtering, and has tried to stop DVRs from recording movies. However, its latest effort to curb piracy may in fact offer something of value to consumers: a site that lets users search for films and receive a listing of all possible places to buy, rent, or download them, 100 percent ... More...
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