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http://www.mpaa.org/MPAAPress/2005/2005_05_12_BitTorrent.pdf
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Thursday, May 12, 2005
MPAA TAKES NEW ACTION AGAINST
TV SHOW THIEVES
Notes Decrease in BitTorrent Activity Since Recent Campaign Began
Los Angeles -- In its ongoing effort to crack down on Internet thieves who steal the copyrighted creative works of its member studios, the Motion PictureAssociation of America, Inc. (MPAA) today announced that it is filing lawsuits against six highly trafficked BitTorrent websites responsible for the illegal swapping of millions of dollars of motion picture and television programming. This is the first time that the MPAA has targeted TV-oriented sites for illegally swapping TV shows which has become a serious and growing problem. An Internet-monitoring company called Envisional reported recently that TV show piracy increased by 150 percent just in the past year.
?Internet thievery of all creative materials is unacceptable and these
thieves need to realize they are not anonymous,? said MPAA President and CEO Dan Glickman. ?There are thousands of people in the entertainment industry who are working to develop, produce, and promote television shows. Those shows and those jobs are worth protecting. Every television series depends on other markets-syndication, international sales ? to earn back the enormous investment required to produce the comedies and dramas we all enjoy and those markets are substantially hurt when that content is stolen. On these sites, anyone in the world can download entire television seasons in a single click.?
MPAA officials said they have been making progress in shutting down many of the BitTorrent sites that are dedicated to illegally swapping movies. Over 90 percent of the sites that have been sued have been shut down entirely. The percent of servers that are operating have decreased by well over 40 percent.
On some of these torrent site?s original homepages like Lokitorrent, UK Torrent and s0nicfreak there now appears the MPAA warning message: ?You Can Click But You Cannot Hide.? (http://www.uk-torrents.com/ http://www.uk-torrents.net/ http://www.s0nicfreak.com/ http://www.lokitorrent.com/ ) MPAA said it hopes to work with these torrent sites to provide entertainment products legally like it does with
Napster.
?Since we began shutting these sites down, the time that it takes to
download a file on BitTorrent has increased exponentially which means the experience of downloading copyrighted films and TV shows is not what it used to be,? said Glickman. ?We intend to make it even worse. Protecting the television industry is essential.?
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Thursday, May 12, 2005
MPAA TAKES NEW ACTION AGAINST
TV SHOW THIEVES
Notes Decrease in BitTorrent Activity Since Recent Campaign Began
Los Angeles -- In its ongoing effort to crack down on Internet thieves who steal the copyrighted creative works of its member studios, the Motion PictureAssociation of America, Inc. (MPAA) today announced that it is filing lawsuits against six highly trafficked BitTorrent websites responsible for the illegal swapping of millions of dollars of motion picture and television programming. This is the first time that the MPAA has targeted TV-oriented sites for illegally swapping TV shows which has become a serious and growing problem. An Internet-monitoring company called Envisional reported recently that TV show piracy increased by 150 percent just in the past year.
?Internet thievery of all creative materials is unacceptable and these
thieves need to realize they are not anonymous,? said MPAA President and CEO Dan Glickman. ?There are thousands of people in the entertainment industry who are working to develop, produce, and promote television shows. Those shows and those jobs are worth protecting. Every television series depends on other markets-syndication, international sales ? to earn back the enormous investment required to produce the comedies and dramas we all enjoy and those markets are substantially hurt when that content is stolen. On these sites, anyone in the world can download entire television seasons in a single click.?
MPAA officials said they have been making progress in shutting down many of the BitTorrent sites that are dedicated to illegally swapping movies. Over 90 percent of the sites that have been sued have been shut down entirely. The percent of servers that are operating have decreased by well over 40 percent.
On some of these torrent site?s original homepages like Lokitorrent, UK Torrent and s0nicfreak there now appears the MPAA warning message: ?You Can Click But You Cannot Hide.? (http://www.uk-torrents.com/ http://www.uk-torrents.net/ http://www.s0nicfreak.com/ http://www.lokitorrent.com/ ) MPAA said it hopes to work with these torrent sites to provide entertainment products legally like it does with
Napster.
?Since we began shutting these sites down, the time that it takes to
download a file on BitTorrent has increased exponentially which means the experience of downloading copyrighted films and TV shows is not what it used to be,? said Glickman. ?We intend to make it even worse. Protecting the television industry is essential.?
