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Originally Posted by Platinum ChrisM
They are, but whoever owns the site will still be enjoying some cock-meat sandwiches when the MPAA gets on them. Just linking to them can lead to a conviction; its already been set as a precedent.
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Which is why we need to join forces as an industry, when dealing with copyright
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The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has won $4 million in damages from two Web sites found guilty of contributory copyright infringement.
MPAA sued CinemaTube.net and Ssupload.com for posting links to Web sites that distribute illegal copies of movies, television shows, and online videos. The United States District Court of Los Angeles in its May 7 ruling ordered both Web sites to stop any further indexing that would violate the copyrights of MPAA members.
MPAA had similar success against indexing Web site TorrentSpy in the beginning of May 2008. The same district court found in favor of MPAA and assessed $111 million in damages against TorrentSpy. That figure was reached after Judge Florence-Marie Cooper required the site to pay $30,000 apiece for 3,699 proven infringements.
TorrentSpy shut down in March 2008 after failing to provide sufficient evidence against accusations of copyright violation.
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more at
http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=23524
How many people in the industry need to get together to start a copyright fund, and streamline the process going after these illegal tube sites and their owners?