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MPAA Lobbies For Army Of Hollywood Drones
You might not imagine the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) as a particularly drone-happy group, but new documents reveal that the actively lobbying the US government for UAV drone use in domestic space. No, they aren’t building an army to track down pirates; they just want filmmakers to be able to shoot with them.
Did US Vice President Joe Biden Order The MegaUpload Raids In January?
The raids on Kim Dotcom’s mansion in January that saw the MegaUpload service shut down raised a lot of eyebrows at the time. Where did the order come from to aggressively raid and shut down a seemingly above-board service operating on the other side of the globe? According to evidence gathered by Dotcom, the order came from none other than Vice President Joe Biden.
MPAA Says Embedding Illegal Video Is Copyright Infringement
Responding to a recent copyright case making its way through the US Seventh Circuit court, the MPAA has issued a brief supporting a judge’s ruling that merely embedding a video that infringes on copyright is as bad as hosting it, even if a person didn’t upload the video. Huh?
MPAA Wants Megaupload Data Saved For Its Future Lawsuits
For as big of a deal as the MPAA made about shutting down Megaupload, the trade association is certainly interested in maintaining users’ data for some reason. Oh, it’s so the MPAA can sue some more people? Right, of course.
Google Calls Shenanigans On MPAA’s DMCA Interpretation
The Motion Picture Association of America has a well-earned reputation for, shall we say, “moulding” its facts. But with its latest lawsuit against Hotfile, the group has apparently gone too far for Google’s tastes. The search giant has just filed an Amicus brief objecting to the MPAA’s “distortion” of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act.
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