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Zeropaid File Sharing P2P Technolog (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
MPAA argues that e-mails it obtained for its case were technically not "intercepted" in violation of federal wiretapping law since the hacked server from which they were sent stored them for several milliseconds before transmission. Though TorrentSpy, once one of the more popular BitTorrent tracker sites around, is long gone, the case still reverberates throughout the online community for it may have...
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Ars Technica (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
The Association Against Audiovisual Piracy (ALPA), a French antipiracy firm, says that illegal downloads in France are reaching a level that could eventually put the film industry out of business. Read More...
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IMDb News (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
In a rare reversal, the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings board has removed the NC-17 rating from 's latest comedy, and will replace it with an R rating. The MPAA said that it had agreed to overturn the rating after hearing arguments from Smith and attorney Alan Friedman, representing The Weinstein Co., which is distributing the movie. In a statement, Weinstein Co. Co-Chairman said, "This...
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Kevin Smith , everyone's favorite oddball indie director, challenged the MPAA rating system for his new pic, "Zack and Miri Make a Porno," and won a reduction from NC-17 to R. The director of such hits as "Clerks," "Jersey Girl," "Dogma" and "Chasing Amy," is no stranger to taking on the MPAA. When "Clerks" first came out it, too, was given and NC-17 rating that Smith was able to alter to an R. And...
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Pop + Politics (Free subscription) | yesterday
You know what would be really novel? If Johnny Depp played someone normal. You know, like a regular guy. A dad. A car salesman. An accountant. Anything that doesn’t involve huge piles of black eyeliner, a bad Anna Wintour bob, razors as murder weapons, scissors, or shaving his head and acting like he’s taken LSD [...]
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Techdirt (Free subscription) | yesterday
We've written about the request from the MPAA to the FCC to grant a waiver that would allow the MPAA to use "selectable output control" (SOC) in order to block DVRs from recording their movies. As we noted , the movie studios basically would like to add in another movie release window, letting movies appear on television before they're released on DVD. Of course, there's absolutely nothing stopping...
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Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
In a rare reversal, the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings board has removed the NC-17 rating from Kevin Smith's latest comedy, Zack and Miri Make a Porno and ...
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RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | yesterday
One re-rate and lesser known films serve this update
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Frankly My Dear... (Free subscription) | yesterday
Zack and Miri Make a Porno now will enter theaters (ahem) with an R rating. Remember, the raunchy Oct. comedy had earned an MPAA NC-17 earlier. So now, more theaters will show it and more developmentally arrested will be able...
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WebPro News (Free subscription) | yesterday
French film fans are illegally downloading more movies than they pay to see in theaters, according to a new study. Alpha, a movie industry group that fights piracy, commissioned the study to examine the number of films downloaded on the Internet via P2P file sharing with movie ticket sales. read more
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Market Wire - Media and Entertainment (Free subscription) | yesterday
BARCELONA, SPAIN (MARKET WIRE) Production Paradise, the leading online resource for the international visual media industry, is to release its latest Production Directory to coincide with this summer's Olympic Games.
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What Would Tyler Durden Do? (Free subscription) | yesterday
Kevin Smith won his appeal today to lower the rating for his comedy "Zack and Miri Make a Porno" from NC-17 to an R. Yahoo says… "We didn't set out to make an NC-17 film. That's just commercial suicide," Smith told The Associated Press. The NC-17 rating would have prohibited anyone younger than 17 from seeing it. With an R rating, those under 17 can see it in the company of an adult. "Zack and Miri,"...
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Techdirt (Free subscription) | yesterday
For a few years now, we've been covering the battle between TorrentSpy and the MPAA. While TorrentSpy has given in and shut down on the question concerning the operations of its business, there was a separate legal question that is still being fought in court. As we noted recently, TorrentSpy has appealed the judge's ruling that the MPAA didn't break any laws in gaining access to its executives' emails....
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FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | yesterday
The MPAA itself has announced today that Kevin Smith's upcoming Zack and Miri Make a Porno has successfully appealed the original NC-17 rating and been given an R rating instead! For those who don't remember, we reported in June that the MPAA had "singled out" Zack and Miri and was being a stickler with their flexibility. With "porno" in the title, this project has been labeled from the start as something...
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/Film (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Kevin Smith is victorious! The filmmaker, who had been given an NC-17 rating by the MPAA for his new film Zack and Miri Make a Porno, was forced to take the decision to the appeal process. The rating would have prohibited anyone younger than 17 years old from seeing the movie, even when accompanied by an [...]
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ambramburici | 05/26/2008
Jamie Pressly is an American Emmy Award-winning actress and in these pictures one fine fashion model . Jaime Pressly ’s beautiful face and body helped her to make a name in the fashion world, but now she is better known in the movie industry due to her blossoming acting talent. With multiple Emmy nominations under her belt and a 2007 Emmy win for her efforts, she has established herself as a solid
