The MPAA or the Motion Picture Association of America, is the organization that is leading the headlong charge against pircay and torrenting. The MPAA consist of Buena Vista Pictures Distribution (The Walt Disney Company), Sony Pictures, Paramount Pictures (Viacom—which bought Dream Works in February 2006), 20th Century Fox (News Corporation), Universal Studios (NBC Universal), and Warner Bros. (Time Warner). The MPAA is also one of the worlds largest monopolies in existence. The MPAA takes action against torrents and torrent servers to protect their profit, as all monopolies do, but are they taking their interest to far?
The MPAA is acting as a global justice system against torrents and illegal file-sharing, which is out of their jurisdiction. In May of 2006 the MPAA pressured Swedish law enforcement to commit a raid, without basis for their allegations, against the servers that hosted torrent files on a popular torrent site, The Pirate Bay. The raid was found to be without basis and the servers were allowed to be brought back online two days later. However, the MPAA committed a successful raid against the Razorback2 server, which was one of the main servers for the peer-to-peer software, Edonkey. Even thought many raids have been committed the MPAA's efforts are futile at best because of the stable amount of torrenting and peer-to-peer activity.
Hypocrisy is the mainstay for the Motion Picture Association of America. When the documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated was released in 2006 the MPAA was caught downloading the movie illegally, yet no charges were filed after they released a statement that the film was illegally downloaded and put into disc media form for several employees of the MPAA. Another incident was when the MPAA distributed a torrent detection system that was already licensed in 2007. No charges were filed but the MPAA did change the toolkit so that it was not under violation of the same copyright laws that it tries to uphold.
Torrents are not just used for illegal file-sharing as the MPAA claims. These downloads have other purposes such as to serve as backups for information or entertainment that people have on their hard drives, which is the United States (the country in which the MPAA is based out off), is perfectly legal. Torrents also can be used for fast downloads of freeware such as the Forgotten Hope 2 modification for Battlefield 2.
MY THOUGHTS
Personally, I believe the MPAA to be an inefficient monopoly that constantly oversteps its jurisdiction and promotes false claims of lost profits. This monopoly not only breaks the laws with its enforcement of raids, but also with its own hypocrisy against copyright information and piracy. I see the MPAA as an organization that needs to have its powers revoked and in need of enforcement of anti-trust laws that are in effect in the United States.
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPAA
http://www.mpaa.org/piracy_internet.asp
http://tech.monstersandcritics.com/news … ht_notices
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4743052.stm
http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=71429
I would love to hear what you have to say about all this, so please do leave replies.
The MPAA is acting as a global justice system against torrents and illegal file-sharing, which is out of their jurisdiction. In May of 2006 the MPAA pressured Swedish law enforcement to commit a raid, without basis for their allegations, against the servers that hosted torrent files on a popular torrent site, The Pirate Bay. The raid was found to be without basis and the servers were allowed to be brought back online two days later. However, the MPAA committed a successful raid against the Razorback2 server, which was one of the main servers for the peer-to-peer software, Edonkey. Even thought many raids have been committed the MPAA's efforts are futile at best because of the stable amount of torrenting and peer-to-peer activity.
Hypocrisy is the mainstay for the Motion Picture Association of America. When the documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated was released in 2006 the MPAA was caught downloading the movie illegally, yet no charges were filed after they released a statement that the film was illegally downloaded and put into disc media form for several employees of the MPAA. Another incident was when the MPAA distributed a torrent detection system that was already licensed in 2007. No charges were filed but the MPAA did change the toolkit so that it was not under violation of the same copyright laws that it tries to uphold.
Torrents are not just used for illegal file-sharing as the MPAA claims. These downloads have other purposes such as to serve as backups for information or entertainment that people have on their hard drives, which is the United States (the country in which the MPAA is based out off), is perfectly legal. Torrents also can be used for fast downloads of freeware such as the Forgotten Hope 2 modification for Battlefield 2.
MY THOUGHTS
Personally, I believe the MPAA to be an inefficient monopoly that constantly oversteps its jurisdiction and promotes false claims of lost profits. This monopoly not only breaks the laws with its enforcement of raids, but also with its own hypocrisy against copyright information and piracy. I see the MPAA as an organization that needs to have its powers revoked and in need of enforcement of anti-trust laws that are in effect in the United States.
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPAA
http://www.mpaa.org/piracy_internet.asp
http://tech.monstersandcritics.com/news … ht_notices
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4743052.stm
http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=71429
I would love to hear what you have to say about all this, so please do leave replies.