Hollywood movie studios on Tuesday filed lawsuits against operators of sites that help people find movies and TV programs on BitTorrent and eDonkey, two major peer-to-peer filesharing networks.
The Motion Picture Association of America and its members, which include Disney, Sony Pictures, MGM, Paramount, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Studios and Warner Brothers, are working with law enforcement and civil authorities around the world to shut down servers on BitTorrent, eDonkey and DirectConnect networks.
“The message today is clear: if you illegally trade movies online, we can find you and we will hold you accountable,” John Malcolm, the MPAA’s Senior Vice President and Director of Worldwide Anti-Piracy Operations, said in a press release.
BitTorrent, Direct Connect and eDonkey are all examples of newer kinds of peer-to-peer file-trading networks that have proliferated online in recent years. These kinds of P2P networks rely on servers termed BitTorrent “trackers,” eDonkey “servers” and Direct Connect “hubs” to index and efficiently deliver files of all kinds.
“The operators being targeted by these actions have helped online pirates steal hundreds of millions of illegal copies of movies and TV programs,” the MPAA said.
Beyond civil suits filed in U.S. and U.K. courts, the MPAA and its members are working with rights-holder organizations and local law-enforcement agencies in several other countries to pursue criminal actions against the people behind illegal file-trading servers based in those countries.
Law enforcement officials in Finland, France and The Netherlands have already taken actions based on the information brought to their attention, the MPAA said.
The MPAA and local rights-holder organizations are also sending cease-and-desist letters to Internet service providers worldwide that host eDonkey servers and DirectConnect hubs.
“We cannot just sit back and let Internet pirates brazenly steal our movies and other intellectual property,” MPAA’s President and CEO Dan Glickman said. “Today’s actions not only will protect creativity but also will bolster the nascent legitimate online market for motion picture distribution.”.
(via PR Newswire)
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HAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Who could stop all the P2P networks around the world?!!!?!!!?!!! You are going against technology, against progress. You are only looking after your dirty capitalist interests. P2P networks are legal and you can do nothing. Only its clients are responsible for the contents of streams, and at this point you can exercice your “legal” rights, but is this really “legal” when laws are made to protect corporations and not people??!!?!!! I’m disgusted that we’re living in such a world!!!!!!
This is stupid!!! i agree with Pavel, there are too many of them and it is impossible to control all the network, those stupid laws are unfair, they cannot stop people to interchange files, because even without servers people can find a way to do it, and if people are not doing it for bussiness purpose, then What the hell is the problem!!!.
Come on, go ahead, you will only increase the development for new ideas, new technology to create more sharing programs like we saw in the last years like NAPSTER. They attack NAPSTER and then was born Edonkey, Emule, Kazza, BitTorrent.
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