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Hello SHANNON.

15 Mar 33 05:25, you wrote to MARK LEWIS:

 ST> Ya know what's odd?  This story never made the BBC.

This one did. What follows is from a Brit sight (forget which one, but
you can tell by the context that it's Brit).

Studios launch campaign against BitTorrent

Staff and agencies
Wednesday December 15, 2004

Hollywood stepped up its battle against internet pirates yesterday when
the Motion Picture Association of America launched a legal battle
against the filesharing networks BitTorrent and eDonkey.
Both networks are widely used to trade pirated movies online. The
association is working with police in the US and Europe to target
individuals involved in the setting up of the filesharing facilities, as
opposed to those using them, or the software companies behind the
programs. BitTorrent itself is a piece of file transfer software, but
the MPAA's targets are those who provide links to pirated files.

John Malcolm, the MPAA's director of worldwide antipiracy operations,
said: "These people are parasites, leeching off the creative activity of
others. They serve as traffic cops connecting those who want to steal
movies with those who have a copy and want to provide it."

Nearly 7,000 individuals have been targeted during the MPAA's two-year
battle against online piracy, but the cross-border legal actions mark a
new stage in the operation. BitTorrent and eDonkey have risen in
popularity recently because they allow users to download very large
files, meaning that entire movies, computer games and software are
accessible.

eDonkey recently surpassed Kazaa as the most popular fileswapping
network in numbers of users, while BitTorrent has long been the largest
network in terms of the amount of data transferred across the web.

More than 100 server operators around the world are being prosecuted,
said the MPAA. In the US the actions are mainly being pursued through
the civil courts, while in Europe several criminal prosecutions are
being undertaken.

In France several cases have already been filed against the
administrators of seven servers used to help people trade files. Their
operator is still wanted by the French authorities.


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15.12.2004: Studios launch campaign against BitTorrent

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