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| Hollywood 'goes after' online file swappers |
| 2004-11-06 |
| Hollywood studios have expanded their legal assault on online film piracy, announcing they will "go after" anyone who illegally downloads movies from the Internet. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) announced its member studios will this month follow the music industry's suit and begin filing copyright infringement lawsuits against people who trade pirated films on the Internet. The new crackdown will target any person who trades illegally copied cinema products on file-swapping networks, as well as the pirates themselves. Dan Glickman, the new president of the MPAA, says "illegal movie trafficking represents the greatest threat to the economic basis of movie-making in its 110-year history". "People who have been stealing our movies believe they are anonymous on the Internet and wouldn't be held responsible for their actions," Mr Glickman said. "They are wrong. We know who they are and we will go after them, as these suits will prove." Officials say the expanded targeting of individual file swappers could generate hundreds of lawsuits a month. |
| Posted by:Mark Espinola |