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<title>Google to penalize pirates, infringers in search rankings</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/08/10/will.take.content.complaints.into.account.for.search.results/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1344643136_MPAA-UK-SurfTheChannel-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Google is set to become more aggressive against sites hosting allegedpirated material. From next week, the search engine will start to factor in the number of valid copyright notices it receives against a site, penalizing those with high numbers by placing them lower in search results. The ranking will "help users find legitimate, quality sources of content more easily," according to a post in the...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2012 23:51:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>MPAA uses subterfuge to investigate UK-based video site</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/05/22/us.defendant.offered.deal.to.implicate.uk.couple/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1205/MPAA-UK-SurfTheChannel-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[It is a terrible cliché when a writer begins a story by claiming that a series of real-life events "reads like a Hollywood movie script," but occasionally dramatic stories occur that are hard to distinguish from the intricate plottings of screenwriters or novelists. An unusual operation involving the US-based Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) hiring investigators to spy on a UK couple t...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 01:56:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>MegaUpload lawyers get to keep user data on 1,100 servers</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/04/13/megaupload.case.to.focus.on.server.data/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1201/megaupload.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[MegaUpload's newly-hired lawyers on Friday successfully fought for the data of nearly 60 million MegaUpload users stored on 1,100 servers. The US District court's Judge Liam O'Grady agreed to require further negotiations between the lawyers representing consumers, major Hollywood studios, the US government, and MegaUpload's hosting service, as well as MegaUpload itself. The servers could could hav...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>MPAA now says embedding videos is copyright infringement</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/04/11/mpaa.pushes.to.criminilize.embedding.videos/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1204/mpaain.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has now included embedding copyrighted videos into the definition of copyright infringement. The legal distinction between actually hosting the pirated video and simply posting a copy of it by embedding it shouldn't exist, the Association argues. It believes doing either should be subjected to the same punishment and be labeled as direct copyright i...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>MPAA head speaks about Steve Jobs, SOPA replacement</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/04/05/industries.need.to.come.to.an.understanding/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn4.macnn.com/news/1201/mpaa-chrisdodd.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Motion Picture Association of America chief executive Christopher Dodd is reportedly maintaining hope that the trade organization will be able to successfully promote a replacement to the SOPA legislation, which was effectively shot down amid resistance from tech companies. In an interview with Hollywood Reporter, the former senator also suggested that Steve Jobs would side with the MPAA in its fi...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>MegaUpload founder says Hollywood courted his company </title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/03/26/kim.dotcom.calls.indictment.mpaa.sponsored/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1201/megaupload.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Kim Dotcom, the MegaUpload founder who was arrested and his site shut down by the US government, is now speaking out quite vigorously against the government and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). He stated that Megauplaod wasn't a host for pirates, but instead a legitimate service that was likely shut down for political reasons, TorrentFreak reported. He goes on to call his indictme...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>MPAA pushes to retain Megaupload user data for lawsuit </title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/03/21/studio.group.denies.that.it.will.sue.users/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn.macnn.com/news/1201/megaupload.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The Motion Picture Association of America has reportedly asked server host Carpathia to retain Megaupload user data. The trade group is attempting to ensure that the data can be used for civil lawsuits, as the government recently gave Carpathia permission to clear the dataótotaling 25 petabytesófrom its servers....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 23:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google blasts studios for "distorting" DMCA in Hotfile suit</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/03/19/search.giant.points.to.safe.harbor.provisions/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn3.macnn.com/news/1203/Hotfile-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Google has filed an amicus brief in the ongoing lawsuit filed by Motion Picture Association of America studios against file sharing site Hotfile. The search giant has accused the plaintiffs of attempting to "distort" the accepted interpretation of safe harbor provisions detailed in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>MPAA studios attempting to get US gov't to shutter Hotfile</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/03/09/claims.site.indistinguishable.from.megaupload/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1203/Hotfile-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Perhaps emboldened by the US government domain seizure of Megaupload, a cadre of film studios have argued in court for the shutdown of Hotfile, another file-sharing business that makes money from advertising and fees and is regularly accused of hosting some copyright-infringing material uploaded by its users. In seeking a summary judgement, the studios say that Hotfile uses the same business model...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 04:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Jim Gaffigan backs Louis CK model with digital-only release</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/02/15/gaffigan.to.distribute.drm.free.comedy.special/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1202/gaffiganin.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Comedian Jim Gaffigan will take a page out of colleague Louis CK's book and distribute his next comedy special, Jim Gaffigan: Mr. Universe, exclusively over the Internet. The one-hour special will be taped on February 25 and be released in April. Gaffigan will charge $5 for the video available from his official website, and donate $1 to charity....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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