[IETF-IDRM] Fwd: Re: [IDRM] MPAA is going after gnutella

[Thomas Hardjono]

>Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 11:18:28 -0700
>From: Mark Baugher <mbaugher@cisco.com>
>Subject: Re: [IDRM] MPAA is going after gnutella
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>hi Judie,
>
>http://www.law.wayne.edu/litman/papers/demon.pdf
>discusses this practice of "demonizing" piracy.  But how
>does the MPAA know that Gnutella or Freenet users are
>swapping copyright movies without snooping the contents
>of files being exchanged?  I think the digital rights and
>personal privacy issues are very closely related for
>us in IDRM.
>
>thanks, Mark
>
>At 01:37 PM 4/18/2001 -0400, Judie Mulholland wrote:
>>fyi/j
>>
>>Action! Piracy clampdown targets movies
>>
>>By Lisa M. Bowman
>>ZDNet News
>>April 17, 2001 1:31 PM PT
>>
>>The movie industry is training its legal guns on the Gnutella file-sharing
>>system in its latest efforts to combat piracy.
>>
>>The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has sent hundreds of
>>letters to major Internet service providers and universities, warning them
>>that some people on their networks are violating the Digital Millennium
>>Copyright Act (DMCA) by trading copyrighted movies through Gnutella.
>>
>>
>>the rest of the article can be found at:
>>
>>http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5081293,00.html