MPAA Sues Hotfile for 'Staggering' Copyright Infringement

Posted by Roblimo on Tuesday February 8, 2011 @12:50PM from the picking-them-off-one-at-a-time dept.

The lawsuit, filed by the MPAA against Hotfile, is on behalf of 20th Century Fox, Universal Studios, Columbia Pictures, and Warner Brothers. "The MPAA argues that Hotfile not only encourages its users to upload illegal content, but actively discourages them from uploading files for personal use, because the site offers incentives for users to upload the most popular files (which invariably end up being copyrighted movies). And because the site charges membership fees before people can download the content uploaded by others, the MPAA says Hotfile 'profits richly while paying nothing to the studios' for the bootleg files."

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Re:Incentive structure discourages noninfringing u by lostmongoose · 2011-02-08 13:13 · Score: 5, Interesting

They have a DMCA form for copyright holders to use. If the MPAA doesn't wanna use it, tough shit. It's why the safe harbor clause exists. They have a way to get the files taken down, and are choosing not use it and instead are doing an end run around the law plain and simple.