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18th April, 2008, 04:09 PM
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has sued Pullmylink.com, a website featuring links to free - and allegedly pirated - movies and TV shows, claiming the site promotes and profits from copyright infringement. The lawsuit is the seventh action filed by the MPAA against content aggregators in the US (thank God RLSLOG is hosted in Europe) since late last year and is part of a larger anti-piracy campaign that included a criminal raid on the UK headquarters of the website TV Links. The campaign against sites that link to, but do not host, illegal content has raised some eyebrows with critics asking why the association doesn?t go after the host sites or search engines such as Google.com, which owns video sharing site YouTube.com. ?Is the message that it?s less criminal to host illegal content on YouTube than it is to link to it from a site such as TV Links?? Guardian technology columnist Jack Schofield wrote in the wake of the MPAA-directed raid on TV Links in October.
?In future, do I risk being thrown in the slammer for linking directly to a YouTube video?? The MPAA, which represents Hollywood?s major studios in government affairs, has obtained settlements or resolutions in the six other cases against web aggregators of video content. It plans to continue its aggressive pursuit of new sites using ?a variety of techniques? to force them to hand back profits made from advertising, anti-piracy director John Malcolm said. Pullmylink.com sees 12,000 visitors a day who view more than 39,000 pages of content, including cable television shows and movies that are still in cinemas. The site recently featured links to streamed copies of the feature films Stop-Loss, 21 and The Other Boleyn Girl, which have not yet been released to DVD, as well as many TV series such as The Tudors, Entourage, and Rome. Uhm? ~~~~ you MPAA!
Source: News.com.au
?In future, do I risk being thrown in the slammer for linking directly to a YouTube video?? The MPAA, which represents Hollywood?s major studios in government affairs, has obtained settlements or resolutions in the six other cases against web aggregators of video content. It plans to continue its aggressive pursuit of new sites using ?a variety of techniques? to force them to hand back profits made from advertising, anti-piracy director John Malcolm said. Pullmylink.com sees 12,000 visitors a day who view more than 39,000 pages of content, including cable television shows and movies that are still in cinemas. The site recently featured links to streamed copies of the feature films Stop-Loss, 21 and The Other Boleyn Girl, which have not yet been released to DVD, as well as many TV series such as The Tudors, Entourage, and Rome. Uhm? ~~~~ you MPAA!
Source: News.com.au