Tag Archives: MPAA

MPAA: 6% of North American Households Have Piracy Software (HMM)

Piracy of movies and TV shows is moving away from disc to digital. About 6% of North American households have a device with open-source Kodi software to access pirated content, acc... More

New MPAA Chief Charles Rivkin Aims to be a Diplomat for Hollywood at an Uncertain Time (Los Angeles Times)

The job of MPAA chief has long been considered one of the toughest gigs in the entertainment business, even during the days of the late Jack Valenti, who ran the organization for f... More

Exhibition Stocks Fall on Warning Studios Will Introduce Premium VOD (Deadline)

Exhibition companies can’t catch a break on Wall Street. Shares in the three major chains are getting hammered today after Morgan Stanley’s Benjamin Swinburne warned that studi... More

Hollywood Wants Governments to Push Voluntary Anti-Piracy Deals (TorrentFreak)

The ever-present threat of online piracy remains a hot topic in Hollywood. A lot has changed over the years. Piracy is arguably more mainstream now with easy to use streaming si... More

Sen. Orrin Hatch Urges MPAA to Allow Filtering on Streaming Services (Variety)

Sen. Orrin Hatch waded into the controversy around content filtering on Wednesday, writing a letter urging the MPAA to allow filtering on streaming services. Hatch is the author of... More

New Coalition to Tackle Piracy Using Law Enforcement, Litigation

A new worldwide coalition of 30 entertainment companies will work with law enforcement, seek new partnerships with content protection groups, and file civil litigation against ille... More

MPAA’s Dodd: Europe Blocked Access to 845 Piracy Sites in 2016 (Variety)

Chris Dodd, chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Assn. of America, praised European officials Monday for blocking access to 845 illegal websites in 2016 that were providing pirat... More

MPAA’s Chris Dodd: Europe Shut Down 845 Piracy Sites in 2016 (Variety)

Chris Dodd, chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Assn. of America, praised European officials Monday for shutting down 845 illegal websites in 2016 that were providing pirated fi... More

Shake-Up at the MPAA: Hollywood’s Chief Lobbyist, Chris Dodd, to be Replaced by Charles Rivkin (LA Times)

Christopher Dodd will step down as chairman of the Motion Picture Assn. of America after six years as the head of the lobbying arm of major Hollywood studios, the industry trade gr... More

MPAA Chairman Chris Dodd: Fortunes of China, U.S. Film Markets are ‘Inextricably Linked’ (THR)

Motion Pictures Association of America chairman and former senator Chris Dodd brought some Washington-style statesmanship to the Beijing International Film Festival on Monday. I... More

Six Alleged Piracy Sites Shuttered After MPAA Files Lawsuit (Deadline)

A lawsuit filed last month by the MPPA and the major Hollywood studios against operators of an alleged ring of piracy sites has been unsealed, showing that those sites have been sh... More

MPAA Studios Taking on Large-Scale Piracy Ring in New York Court (THR)

Users looking for pirated films to stream may have noticed that several high-volume sites are no longer available. That's because the major Hollywood studios launched a legal battl... More

MPAA: More Work Needed vs. Piracy Sites

The recently released United States Trade Representative’s (USTR) annual 2016 Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets — which identifies online and physical marketplaces world... More

Pirates Lose Legal Battle Against Hollywood Studios in U.K. (Variety)

The Motion Picture Assn., the international arm of the MPAA that protects the interests of Hollywood studios abroad, has won a legal bid in the U.K. to block access to 13 websites ... More

MPAA: Early ‘Trusted Notifier’ Anti-Piracy Results Promising

In February, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) announced a partnership with Donuts Inc., which operates close to 200 domain name extensions, including .MOVIE and .TH... More

MPAA Boss: Europe’s Geo Unblocking Plans Threaten Movie Industry (TorrentFreak)

MPAA Chairman and CEO Chris Dodd fears that Europe's plans to limit geo-blocking will "cause great harm" to the movie industry. In a keynote address at the CineEurope convention, D... More

Radix, MPAA Establish New Partnership to Reduce Online Piracy (MPAA)

Domain name registry operator Radix and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) today jointly announced an agreement to help ensure that websites using domains ope... More

MPAA Signs Anti-Piracy Deal With Large Domain Registry (TorrentFreak)

Following the failed SOPA and PIPA bills, entertainment industry groups have switched their efforts away from legislation and towards voluntary cooperation with various stakeholder... More

Judge Grants Injunction Against Zediva; ‘DVDs Over the Internet’ Start-Up ‘Intends to Appeal’

Zediva, the unlicensed streaming video service fighting for its life in a California federal court, has yet to persuade a judge on its interpretation of copyright law. U.S. Distric... More

Biden Huddles With Hollywood On Piracy Issues

Vice President Joe Biden, Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr., and FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III are among the top government officials meeting with entertainment industry leaders t... More