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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]
Copy protection for computer software, especially for games, has been a long cat-and-mouse struggle between publishers and crackers.These were (and are) programmers who defeated copy protection on software as a hobby, add their alias to the title screen, and then distribute the "cracked" product to the network of warez BBSes or Internet sites that specialized in distributing unauthorized ...
In August 2009, the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) released a follow-up to the original video of 1992, titled Don't Copy That 2.The video features M. E. Hart reprising his role as "MC Double Def DP" and follows a college student named Jason who sells pirated software online before being arrested for his crimes (though it is unclear whether the legal repercussions are a ...
17 U.S.C. Sec. 1201 (a)(2) provides: (2) No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that— (A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title; (B) has only limited ...
Subsequently, in 1971, following lobbying by the sound recording industry, the U.S. Congress extended federal copyright protection to sound recordings as well vide the Sound Recording Act of 1971. [11] This consequently led to criminal penalties being made available against wilful and for-profit infringement of sound recordings. [7]
The Motion Picture Association has hired Marissa Bostick as its new senior vice president and head of global litigation. She is responsible for overseeing global anti-piracy legal matters on ...
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.
Leading anti-piracy body Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) has shut down two major illegal streaming services in Georgia. Considered the two largest illegal streamers in the former ...