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UK Court: MPAA Not Entitled To Profits From Piracy

Posted by samzenpus on from the not-so-fast dept.

jfruh writes "The MPAA and other entertainment industry groups have been locked for years in a legal struggle against Newzbin2, a Usenet-indexing site. Since Newzbin2 profited from making it easier for users to find pirated movies online, the MPAA contends they can sue to take those profits on behalf of members who produced that content in the first place. But a British court has rejected that argument."

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  1. Re:Apparently running Newzbin gave a good lifestyl by Squiddie · · Score: 3, Funny

    Could be an MP4-12C. Still the F1 is nice and all, but for half a million pounds, you don't even get passenger seats. Obviously my beat up '97 SHO is much better and just as exclusive, being the only Taurus variant to have a V8.

  2. Re:Apparently running Newzbin gave a good lifestyl by mister_playboy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yep, one for the wife and one for the mistress.

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