MPAA sues more video websites
Posted on 31/07/08 04:41 by Marteen Madison                             
MPAA sues more video websites
The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) has recently filed copyright infringement lawsuits against movierumor.com and fomdb.com, two separate internet video websites. The lawsuits allege that both sites are providing illegal video streams of copyrighted content and profiting by way of online advertising revenue. Both sites are based in the USA.



The Dark Knight, Iron Man, The X-Files: I Want to Believe, Bee Movie and others are among the list of numerous high profile Hollywood films that are being illegally distributed by the defendants, according to the lawsuit.

In recent years, the MPAA has been awarded multi-million dollar judgements against similar illegal video streaming websites such as showstash.com.

Personally, I don't condone blatant copyright infringement, but why in the world would someone set up a site like this on US soil? They are just asking to get fined, get some prison time or both.
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By Randomus, Thu 31 Jul 2008 08:12

Even though it's obvious the RIAA has a harder piracy battle to deal with, it's not surprising to see the MPAA launch more attacks against video web sites that are streaming popular movies.  Streaming a movie like The Dark Knight simply doesn't seem like a brilliant idea, so I am not sure how the defendants expected to go unnoticed...

Piracy obviously won't go away, and the RIAA and MPAA know this, but that doesn't mean they have to roll over and simply take it.

Like the author noticed, why bother setting up a site like this in the Untied States?  It's even becoming increasingly dangerous to have a site like that overseas in Europe and parts of Asia, but why America?

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