Movements against piracy in 2008
For Digital Future | July 9, 2008
On May 8 will be remembered as a historic day against audiovisual piracy in Hollywood, as a Los Angeles judge who sentenced Valence Media, which owns the site TorrentSpy.com, compensate producers with six $ 30,000 for each of the nearly 3700 movies and television series that had been illegally downloaded by users. This is an example that shows the toughness of the United States with pirates off the permissiveness that some countries are in the European Union. In total, the portal has to pay $ 111 million apart from the closure of the site in May this year. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) brought this lawsuit in 2006.
Valence Media declared bankruptcy and appealed the sentence. TorrentSpy.com was providing a portal for users to locate Torrent files on the Internet, a system that allows any type of file sharing. Valence Media claimed in his defense that never upheld files on your system without appropriate legal authority and stated that the possible crimes against copyright fall on users, such as with Google. For the MPAA, TorrentSpy is only to help the user to build illegally in Hollywood productions. This serves as a warning to other sites like PirateBay, another popular site for sharing torrents based in Sweden, which faces a complaint from January to the courts of the country to get economic benefits through advertising illegal file sharing.
In Spain, on May 14 AVEI, the Independent Association Videográfica Spanish, consisting of independent individuals or companies engaged in publishing and distribution of audiovisual works in video and film, as well as owners and licensees of exploitation rights Videographic and film, filed a complaint with the Inspection Service and sanctions ICAA (Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts) against over 150,000 irregularities and breaches of rules made by audiovisual download websites via streaming. In total, twelve sites that distribute and display the relevant securities without qualification by age and without the file number of the ICAA prescriptive. AVEI says fight for a legal audiovisual market and quality, and believes that the ICAA and the Ministry of Culture have a duty to punish these practices.
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