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MPAA To Target BitTorrent Users

Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2004 4:06 am
by me here
The MPAA has decided to levey lawsuits against users of BitTorrent sharing movies...

MPAA Sues BitTorrent
Posted by Tom Barger on December 13, 2004 at 8:24 PM
Trade org is expected to announce today that it's working with law enforcement authorities in the U.S. and Europe to arrest individuals and groups who run indexing servers for eDonkey and BitTorrent.

Move comes several days after the MPAA and RIAARIAA won the right to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court a lower court decision legalizing decentralized P2P networks (Daily Variety, Dec. 13). But while P2P networks themselves are still legal despite industry efforts to shut them down, indexing servers that help users locate and download pirated content are not.

"If it can be demonstrated they lent substantial assistance to copyright infringement and had knowledge of what they were doing, it's a strong case that fits in line with Napster."
So they will no doubt attempt to file charges but can they make it stick?? :roll:

to read more go to and let me know what ya think:
http://www.boycott-riaa.com/article/15215

Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2004 8:07 am
by Rat
Over on Filebreech, SirTuho has already reported that a BitTorrent service in Finland has been raided as a result of MPAA action. Administrators and 'power users' of the service have been arrested and their computers, games consoles and storage devices have been seized.
Criminal procedings are possible in many countries this side of the Atlantic.