MPAA wins $24M judgment agains Film88.com

[wmansir]

Link (http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news/story.jsp?id=2004112922360002148972&dt=20041129223600&w=RTR&coview=)

They won it on default in an LA court because the defendents never responded.

[Mug Funky]

the two sweetest words in the english language, huh?

[Joe Fenton]

Now let's see them try to collect. :D Seriously, they haven't even managed to get the web page down. Why would a company in Malayasia bother with anything an American court says? The RIAA and MPAA have become obsessed with tilting at windmills. :rolleyes:

[LordRPI]

I think the Valgrind incident in Australia shows enough...

They've definately begun to outsmart themselves.

[adam]

Originally posted by Joe Fenton
Now let's see them try to collect. :D Seriously, they haven't even managed to get the web page down. Why would a company in Malayasia bother with anything an American court says? The RIAA and MPAA have become obsessed with tilting at windmills. :rolleyes: Well they will be bothered when that judgment is domesticated in Malaysia and a Malaysian court seizes all their assets to satisfy the judgment. Malaysia is bound to enforce US copyrights under TRIPS.

This cannot happen for a little while though. The Court retains plenary power over the judgment, usually for at least 30 days, and the defendants can and almost surely will file a motion for a new trial. Until the case is fully disposed of there is no sense trying to collect on the judgment.

As for the website being up, same thing. If it were an American citizen they would have gotten a preliminary injuction from the start and the site would have been down even before judgment. But since its a foreign citizen (I presume) their hands are probably tied.

[Mug Funky]

@ lordRPI:

what was that? i either never knew or can't remember... a link would be cool :)

btw, anything about IP in australia will go to hell come new years day. stupid governments and their stupid free stupid trade stupid agreements. at least they kept the pharmaceutical patent stuff as it was.

[dragongodz]

a link would be cool :)
how about 2 ? :)
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/0,2000061744,39159948,00.htm
and the lame response
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/business/0,39023166,39161794,00.htm

anything about IP in australia will go to hell come new years day. stupid governments and their stupid free stupid trade stupid agreements.
oh ye, copyright is going to be a real minefield. did you read that link i gave in another post about all the little changes just in the copyright section of the FTA ? we may aswell be saying U.S. companies can claim what they like and screw AUS copyright law. :angry:

[Mug Funky]

hmm, well, as you know aus copyright law has no fair use doctrine, and is in fact amoung the worst in the world for consumers. the FTA just makes it even worse (and i'm guessing it provides a nice way of allowing US organizations to sue Australians...).

i wonder why all those people with iPods haven't been taken away in chains? perhaps they will be? or maybe devices like the iPod are known by the industry to actually encourage people to buy music and so they may not be touched. it'll be interesting to watch what happens next year.

hmm... keyword searches and false positives seem to be the american way :)

btw, looks like i had read about Valgrind, and forgotten...

[dragongodz]

and i'm guessing it provides a nice way of allowing US organizations to sue Australians
yep it will no doubt make the a$$hole company that bought the trademark for ugg boots happy. they wont just be sending demands to stop using the name they will start actually sueing. and then the macquarie dictionary will have to change it from being a generic term(as also demanded by the same company).

keyword searches and false positives seem to be the american way
yep and copyright happy toboot(pun intended). think donald trump trying to copyright "you're fired". ok he failed on that one but just goes to show, they will try to copyright anything if they can.