MPAA: Damage Caused By Uploader Can’t Be Measured in Money. Now Give Us Money

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by enigmax

According to the MPAA, a file-sharer who uploaded three movies to the internet caused damage so great it caused them an ‘irreperable injury that cannot fully be compensated or measured in money’. Despite cash being completely inadequate to solve this 3-movie download armageddon, the MPAA is having a go anyway - demanding damages, costs and fees.

The MPAA just filed a lawsuit alleging that a resident of Rome made illegal copies of, and also uploaded - three movies to the internet using an “online media distribution system”, probably BitTorrent.

According to the report, no address was given for Mr James Wilson - the man accused by the MPAA of ‘willful and intentional’ copyright infringement. According to them, he made unauthorized copies of just three movies - ‘Hide and Seek’, ‘House of Wax’ and ‘Robots’ and uploaded them to the internet.

According to the lawsuit, the Plaintiffs (Warner Brothers and Twentieth Century Fox), “bring this action to stop defendant from copying and distributing to others over the Internet unauthorized copies of the Plaintiff’s copyright motion pictures”

Noting that there was no financial motivation to the infringement it continues: “Defendant’s infringements allow Defendant and others to unlawfully obtain and distribute for free unauthorized copyright works that the plaintiffs spend millions of dollars to create and/or distribute”

The MPAA knows a thing or two about drama, it’s their business after all, so when assessing the trouble Mr Wilson had caused them by sharing 3 movies, they told it straight: “Defendant’s conduct is causing, and unless enjoined and restrained by this Court will continue to cause, the Plaintiffs great and irreparable injury that cannot be compensated or measured in money”

Of course, that doesn’t stop the MPAA trying to measure the costs: aside from demanding that any copies of the movies are destroyed (3 DVDRs I guess) they want substantial damages and costs for bringing the legal action.

Incidentally, the movie ‘House of Wax’ was also listed in the 2005 MPAA press release(.pdf) proclaiming the demise of EliteTorrents- so when the MPAA talks about ‘injury that cannot be compensated or measured in money’ I wonder if they’re thinking of how the last 6 months have been for Scott McCausland, sitting in prison.

And he shared just one movie.

Source: Torrent Freak

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The MPAA is so full of shit it's not even funny. A friend of my at Kaplan University, who has his masters in Business and is working on his doctoral degree, Says that the motion picture and music industry lie about the damages (money) caused by internet downloading. While he says there is definately a loss they fail to acknowledge the advertising benefits of internet sharing. They may lose out on the actual movie or cd but they reep the benefits of a thousand different associated products, that can't be downloaded. My opion is that they have been swimming in profits in years past for so long. Setting whatever price they want and the public not being able to do anything about it. They had an air tight monopoly on the market. And now that they don't have that control their greedy ass's are pissed. Well I say good, What goes around comes back around!! Long live the 21st. Pirate!! aaargh!