movie piracy

The movie industry claims that piracy is costing them billions of dollars a year.

Luckily for Hollywood, many Americans choose to consume their online media through legal services such as Netflix.

In fact, there are now so many that the total Internet traffic generated by Netflix has outgrown that of BitTorrent.

Anti-piracy group RettighedsAlliancen say they have been busy recently tracking down piracy ‘masterminds’. After busting who they claim is the leader of a huge movie piracy group, last week they had the police detain a less likely target – a 19-year-old law student who runs a file-sharing blog.

RettighedsAlliancen say that guides on his site showed readers how to break the law, an act serious enough to involve the police.

Over the years we've had plenty of fun with the MPAA's bogus use of stats when it comes to "piracy" claims.

They're really laughable, and it would actually be kind of funny... if policy makers and the press didn't actually believe those numbers and pass bad legislation based on them.

Even the one time that the MPAA admitted its piracy stats were totally wrong, it was too late to stop a law that was passed on the basis of those bogus numbers.

To many people the movie piracy Scene is something mythical or at least hard to comprehend. Who are these people who are the source for the majority of the pirated movies online?

In recent years, technical anti-piracy enforcement has taken a less aggressive approach to that previously demonstrated by the infamous MediaDefender.

For many years movies have been released onto the Internet, trickling down the so-called 'piracy pyramid' from elitist and private sites.

Now a new breed of release groups are starting to make waves, bringing media directly to the masses.

With practically unlimited ways for users to access Twitter for sending and receiving tweets, we wondered how long it would take before it became an active part