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Shut-Down Movie Site Promises MPAA Court Fight

Posted by timothy on from the didn't-dot-all-their-ts-or-cross-their-is dept.

idolcrash writes "It looks like the owner a movie site shut down in 2001 will be attempting to take the MPAA to court regarding the shutdown of his website at the request of the MPAA, claiming he'll take them all the way to the Supreme Court to challenge the Constitutionality of the DMCA, under which his website was taken down."

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  1. Time travel? by IO+ERROR · · Score: 4, Interesting
    The MPAA stated, under penalty of perjury, that in 2001 www.InternetMovies.com made available for illegal download the third installment of "The Lord of the Rings," which was not actually finished until 2003. The MPAA issued a cease and desist order to InternetMovies.com's ISP to shut down the site.

    No, it's worse than that. They made a patently false allegation in order to get the site shut down.

    According to Rossi, "MPAA communications with my ISP were unreasonable and outrageous and without just cause or excuse and beyond all bounds of decency -- violating the DMCA. The courts must have overlooked that I could not have made a movie downloadable 3 years in the future, which shows that the MPAA was not within the boundaries of decency and that the court should not have ruled in favor of the MPAA."

    He raises a good question. How could he make a movie available for download before it was even made?

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