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Movie Industry Files Injunction Against UK ISP
daedae writes "The Motion Picture Association (MPA), which represents studios including Twentieth Century Fox and Walt Disney, have filed suit in the UK against BT, Britain's largest ISP. The studios are asking for an injunction which would force BT to block access to Newzbin, on the grounds of massive losses to Usenet piracy."
Because all those using usenet to get movies would otherwise have purchased them? I doubt it.
Is this not the same as suing gun manufacturers for making lethal tools?
Those who can, do. Those who cannot, sue.
How many here has boycotted the xxAA members?
I have, and that makes me a little worried when i see the xxAA use claims of "massive losses" to justify their continuous lawsuit, i mean; When i no longer go to, or rent movies, the xxAA suffers losses, that is after all the point of boycotting them :) BUT, if all the xxAA has to do, is to make the claim; if i am not buying their "content" then i must be stealing it! where does that leave me and my little boycott? is there any point to a boycott, if it can be dismissed so easily? should i just forget it, and start pirating?
"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." - Denis Diderot.
I hope they get counter-sued for tortious interference in a contract between two other parties (BT and their consumers).
I had a similar thought when I saw this story yesterday. BT and the other ISPs in the UK should just kick the MPAA off the internet - cut any service they have in the UK and block all their sites hosted abroad. There's no reason why ISPs should be forced to do business with them.