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  • MPAA touts lawsuits, new P2P-fighting software

    The Motion Picture Association of America said Tuesday that it filed an unspecified number of lawsuits against people who trade copyrighted movies online, following through on plans announced earlier in the month.

  • Court: Hollywood gets P2P giant's server logs

    A Dallas federal court has ordered file-swapping site LokiTorrent.com to shut down and provide Hollywood lawyers with access to its full server logs, including data that could expose hundreds of thousands of people to copyright lawsuits.

  • Hollywood takes P2P case to Supreme Court

    Hollywood studios and record companies on Friday asked the United States Supreme Court to overturn a controversial series of recent court decisions that have kept file-swapping software legal.

  • MPAA launches software snooping tool

    The Motion Picture Association of America is following the lead of the RIAA in going after individuals who use peer-to-peer networks

  • Most P2P movies leaked by studio: Study

    The idea of the computer users copying or "ripping" DVDs for upload to peer-to-peer (P2P) networks seems to be a myth, according to new research.

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