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• Hollywood studios file piracy suit in China

  - 2006-09-13

  BEIJING AFP — Six Hollywood studios have said they had filed suit against Chinese firms for allegedly selling illegal copies of their movies, in a case aimed at curbing the rampant piracy of Western films. More than 90 percent of films sold in China on DVD are estimated to be...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, China, Government, Hollywood Studios, Piracy

• 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...

  Tags: Hollywood Studios, INTERNET, lawsuit, movie, MPAA, Piracy

• 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...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Hollywood Studios, INTERNET, lawsuit, movie, MPAA, Piracy, Strategy

• Hollywood launches legal assault on illegal movie downloaders

  - 2004-11-04

  LOS ANGELES AFP — Hollywood studios launched a major new legal onslaught against online film piracy, announcing that they are suing people who illegally download movies from the Internet. The expansion of the industry's crusade against copyright theft will target individuals who trade illegally copied cinema products on file-sharing...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Hollywood Studios, INTERNET, movie, MPAA, Piracy, Strategy

• Special edition screeners.(Wide Angle)(Brief Article)

  - 2004-06-21

  The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has suggested Hollywood studios issue special DVD players to voting members in order to prevent piracy of video screeners during Oscar season. Dolby has been approached to provide machines featuring a digital key unlocking encryption safeguards that would...

  Tags: DVD, Hollywood Studios, MARKETING, Piracy, video

• Court rules unauthorized DVD copying does not amount to theft.(digital video disk; Oslo court)(Brief Article)

  - 2003-01-07

  TV MEETS THE WEB-C2003 Van Dusseldorp & Partners - http://www.vandusseldorp.com/ Major Hollywood Studios have failed to successfully prosecute a Norwegian Teenager charged with DVD piracy, an Oslo court heard yesterday. A unanimous verdict found Jon Johansen not guilty of piracy after...

  Tags: disk, DVD, Hollywood Studios, Oslo, Piracy, software, verdict

• Web Pirates Already Looting Top Films

  - 2001-07-16

  Hollywood studios worry that Internet video on demand will lead to piracy, but the digital copyright enforcement firm MediaForce says the barn door is already wide open. Movies are being heavily pirated, costing studios an estimated $2.5 billion a year, says the company. Top titles now available on the Web...

  Tags: Aimster, cinema, Gnutella, Hollywood Studios, MARKETING, Piracy, video, Web