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ViewNow to Offer Disney's "Pirates" for 72-Hour VOD Rental

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on December 6, 2006 - 3:13pm.
Encino, Calif. - ViewNow, an aggregator of content for IPTV and video-on-demand services, announced on Wednesday that it will offer Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" on video-on-demand on Jan. 4. The debut comes 30 days after the film's DVD release; typically the window is 45 days. ViewNow said it will also offer a 72-hour viewing period for the film, instead of the typical 24-hour window.
tags: Video | VOD | Broadband | Movies | Commerce | Disney | IPTV | Rentals | ViewNow | Pirates |

Volvo: 52,000 Participate in Online Treasure Hunt for Buried Vehicle

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on July 17, 2006 - 1:05pm.
Irvine, Calif. - Volvo announced on Monday that 52,000 users participated in the initial online stage of its "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" tie-in treasure hunt to uncover a Volvo XC90 buried somewhere in the world.
tags: Video | Marketing | Advertising | Autos | Movies | Promotions | Contests | Volvo | Pirates |

RIAA Sues Another 532 Alleged Song Pirates; Many Students Targeted

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 23, 2004 - 4:44am.
Washington -- The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced on Tuesday that it has filed 532 additional lawsuits against alleged music file-swappers, bringing the total number of individuals sued for copyright infringement by the record label trade group to 1,977. This third wave of suits includes actions filed against students at 21 different universities, where peer-to-peer file-sharing is extremely popular. "It's important for everyone to understand that no one is immune from the consequences of illegally 'sharing' music files," said RIAA president Cary Sherman. "Piracy, which is particularly rampant on college campuses, continues to hurt retailers, musicians, producers, record labels and the thousands of less-celebrated individuals involved in making music." The current RIAA lawsuits were filed against "John Doe" defendants, following a federal court ruling that stipulated an earlier expedited process used to obtain file-swappers' identities from their Internet service providers was illegal. None of the RIAA's lawsuits against individual file-swappers has gone to trial; the group has settled over 400 of the suits for sums averaging $3,000.
tags: RIAA | Musics | Students | Pirates |

IT Companies Worst Software Pirates in U.K., Report Says

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 2, 2004 - 1:57am.
London -- According to a new study by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), IT companies are ironically England's worst offenders when it comes to software piracy. The BSA said that out of the 50 settlements made with the group last year, 12 were made by IT firms, nearly a quarter of the total. The BSA's Northern Europe manager Siobhan Carroll said that the alliance was "particularly unhappy to see the lack of diligence within the IT sector", adding that, of all sectors, the IT sector should realise the "effect of piracy on software innovation and the development of the IT sector as a whole".
tags: Reports | Software | U.K. | Pirates | IT |

DirecTV Pirate First Jury-Decided Convict Under Digital Copyright Act

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 24, 2003 - 10:57am.
Los Angeles -- A Florida man has been convicted of criminal violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) for selling unauthorized access cards that let viewers pirate satellite TV, in the first case regarding the controversial law to be decided by a federal jury. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles said that 38-year-old Thomas Michael Whitehead was convicted of six felonies, including three DMCA violations, and faces up to 30 years in prison and fines of up to $2.75 million.
tags: DirecTV | Digital | Laws | Pirates | Act |