Posts Tagged ‘MPAA’

MPAA Admits “human error”

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Ah, good stuff. Never hurts to trump up some numbers when trying to emphasize the size and scope of a problem.

In 2005, the MPAA said 44% of piracy came from college students. Now, three years later – oops! – we were wrong. It was only 15%. The blame? “Human Error.”

It took three years for the MPAA to find a math mistake that was 200% higher than the actual number? Solid.

MPAA Admits “human error”

TorrentSpy.com Loses MPAA Battle

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

DigitalMediaWire reports that a federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled in favor of Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) member studios in their copyright infringement suits against TorrentSpy.com.

The judge also determined that TorrentSpy had destroyed evidence in the case and moved directly to the damages phase.

TorrentSpy.com Loses MPAA Battle