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zacoz
21st June 2008, 13:44
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/06/mpaa-says-no-pr.html

The Motion Picture Association of America said Friday intellectual-property holders should have the right to collect damages, perhaps as much as $150,000 per copyright violation, without having to prove infringement.
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"It is often very difficult, and in some cases, impossible, to provide such direct proof when confronting modern forms of copyright infringement, ..." van Uitert wrote on behalf of the movie studios...

Guest
21st June 2008, 15:53
The headline is very misleading. The MPAA considers the existence of copyrighted material in a P2P shared folder proof enough. That is quite different from saying they don't need any proof at all!