Hollywood To Sue Pirates: Report

KingFishKingFish
edited November 2004 in Science & Tech
The Motion Picture Association of America is set to follow the lead of the music industry and start filing lawsuits against individuals who it charges are illegally trading digital copies of movies, according to a published report.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the legal effort will be announced Thursday. Trade industry publications have reported that such a legal strategy had been weighed and debated within the industry for several months. The Recording Industry Association of America has filed more than 1,500 lawsuits against individuals it charged with widespread illegal downloading of songs over the Internet. That industry blames free downloads as a major cause of the drop in CD sales. The industry believes the lawsuits have helped stem the illegal downloading of music, helping to push some individuals to pay download sites which pay royalties to the record labels.
Source: CNN
Sign In or Register to comment.