The dream of an admittedly-overly-complicated way of ignoring existing copyright law in order to stream movies online is, it seems, over with the news that the lawsuit between the Motion Picture Association of America and website Zediva.com has been resolved, with Zediva agreeing to pay $1.8 million and permanently stop streaming video …
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Judge Rules Against Remotely Watching DVDs over the Internet
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.
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MPAA Asks Judge to Shut Down Movie Streaming Service
The Motion Picture Association of America wants you to stop watching movies at home. Specifically, it wants you to stop watching movies streamed online from Zediva, the “place-shifting private performance” site that allows subscribers to rent physical DVDs that are played in one central location, with the playback streamed to your own …
Does ‘Place Shifting’ Make Movie Watching Public or Private?
When is streaming movies online not streaming movies online? That’s not the set-up for some existential movie piracy joke, but the question at the heart of a lawsuit between the Motion Picture Association of America and a company called Zediva.
Zediva offers a video-on-demand service that it believes avoids the problems that have …