The massive file-sharing lawsuit filed against more than 20,000 pirates of last year’s movie The Expendables—one of the biggest copyright lawsuits in history—has been dropped by the plaintiff, following intervention by the judge in the case. But that doesn’t mean that anyone who torrented the movie can sleep easy just yet.
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Samsung is going to an interesting place in its attempts to avoid being found guilty of infringing on Apple’s tablet computer patents with its design for the Galaxy Tab Android tablet: Yesterday’s tomorrow.
Apparently, Samsung plans to cite the 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey as proof that Apple didn’t invent the tablet as we know it …
Former Disney studio Miramax is following those two companies onto Facebook with the launch of a Miramax app – the Miramax eXperience – for the social networking giant that will allow Facebook users to rent, and eventually buy, movies through the site.
According to Miramax, there are more than 50 million Facebook users who either …
Clearly, Netflix subscribes to the “Get ‘Em While They’re Young” philosophy of brand loyalty, launching a new area of its website called the “Just For Kids.”
In the past 90 days, a full 50% of the 25 million North American Netflix members have used Watch Instantly to watch “at least” two movies or shows for kids. Now, “Just For Kids” …
Finally, one studio seems to have realized that no one really wants to pay $30 to watch a movie on-demand, even if it is available a couple of months after being released in theaters. Lionsgate may be planning to offer Abduction, a thriller starring Twilight wolfboy Taylor Lautner, on VoD three months after theater release for just …
Remember the lawsuit by the U.S. Copyright Group to sue 23,322 alleged pirates who had illegally downloaded The Expendables?
According to the Hollywood Reporter, a judge in Washington D.C. may just have derailed the entire thing with one simple question: How many of the 23,322 defendants live in my district?
D.C. District Court …
A pair of iTunes-related rumors hint at big plans ahead for Apple’s TV and movie service.
First up is “iTunes Replay,” which according to AppAdvice‘s unnamed sources will let users stream movies directly from Apple’s servers and easily download them to multiple Apple devices. This may depend on agreements with movie studios, as …
Streaming movies online is public performance, no matter how you do it. At least, that seems to be the takeaway in the preliminary injunction granted against Zediva by a federal judge presiding over the Motion Picture Association of America’s current suit against the video-on-demand provider.
(MORE: MPAA Asks Judge to Shut Down Movie …
According to Hulu’s official customer support Twitter account, the online VoD company is considering augmenting its current ad-supported free and subscription models with “a higher priced ad-free option.”
As reported by GigaOM, @hulu_support repeatedly tweeted that the company was “currently an ad supported service but are looking …
Here at Techland, we still consider Netflix to be a pretty good deal, especially now that they’re offering Mad Men streaming in its entirety.
But we also understand that jacking up of subscription prices from $10 for an all inclusive package to $16 for both DVDs and streaming (with little warning to their customers) wasn’t exactly the …
When the Motion Picture Association of America filed a lawsuit against file-sharing website Hotfile earlier this year, it would’ve expected a defense. What it might not have expected was that the defense would claim that movie studios are using anti-piracy tools to remove content that they don’t even own.
According to papers filed by …
According to a letter to shareholders released yesterday, Netflix is finally going to launch an app to integrate itself with Facebook…in Latin America and Canada. Why is the U.S. missing out? That would be because of the Video Privacy Protection Act.
The VPPA – passed in 1988, following an alt-weekly’s publishing of Supreme Court …