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• Torrentspy Files Motion to Dismiss Major Hollywood Studio's Copyright Suit

  - 2006-03-28

  NOVATO, Calif. -- The Torrentspy search engine today defended itself against a copyright lawsuit supported by the MPAA and brought by the major Hollywood studios by filing a Motion to Dismiss the lawsuit in Federal Court in Los Angeles. The Motion to Dismiss defends against allegations brought by the major...

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• Hollywood studios to start identifying movie pirates

  - 2005-04-12

  LOS ANGELES AFP — Hollywood studios will begin naming and shaming people who trade pirated movies on the Internet in a wave of lawsuits targeting the multi-billion-dollar scourge, they said. Dan Glickman, president of the studios' powerful lobby group that has its sights trained on pirates, announced that individual...

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• Hollywood studios file first lawsuits against online piracy consumers

  - 2004-11-16

  LOS ANGELES AFP — Hollywood's major movie studios have filed their first wave of lawsuits against US Internet users who trade pirated movies online, they announced. The legal action came less than two weeks after the studios announced that they would follow the recording industry's lead and go after...

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