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"You Wouldn't Steal a Car" is the first sentence and commonly used name of a public service announcement that debuted on July 12, 2004 in cinemas, [1] and July 27 on home media, which was part of the anti-copyright infringement campaign "Piracy. It's a crime.
John G. Malcolm, former Senior Vice President and Director of Worldwide Anti-Piracy for the MPAA, has been quoted saying that the goal of the campaign is to "make an example of" internet movie thieves and other pirates. [3]
The Electronic Frontier Foundation expressed concern that free and open source software projects found to be aiding online piracy could experience serious problems under SOPA. [75] Of special concern was the web browser Firefox , [ 40 ] which has an optional extension, MAFIAAFire Redirector, that redirects users to a new location for domains ...
Coded anti-piracy marks can be added to films to identify the source of illegal copies and shut them down. In 2006, a notable example of using Coded Anti-Piracy marks resulted in a man being arrested [79] for uploading a screener's copy of the movie Flushed Away. Some photocopiers use Machine Identification Code dots for similar purposes.
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) found broad support from organizations that rely on copyright, including the Motion Picture Association of America, [1] the Recording Industry Association of America, [1] Macmillan Publishers, Viacom, and various other companies and unions in the cable, movie, and music industries.
Rather than shutting down r/piracy outright, as happened with those other subreddits, Reddit decided in 2019 to delete all of r/piracy's posts and comments created prior to September 2018 - a ...
Coded anti-piracy (CAP) is an anti-copyright infringement technology which marks each film print of a motion picture with a distinguishing pattern of dots, used as a forensic identifier to identify the source of illegal copies.
Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) is a coalition [1] of more than 50 major global entertainment companies and film studios, [2] aimed at reducing online piracy of copyrighted material. [3] ACE was launched on June 13, 2017. [4] [3]