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		<title>Zediva Shuts Down After Settling Lawsuit with MPAA</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/31/zediva-shuts-down-after-settling-lawsuit-with-mpaa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 as a result. The company had launched earlier this year, offering $2 movie rentals online to customers and immediately coming under fire for not having permission from the studios who owned the movies to do so; not—more importantly—the same kind of license that companies like Netflix, YouTube and Hulu need to stream content online. Zediva claimed that it didn&#8217;t need either, as what it was actually doing was renting physical DVDs to clients and then streaming the content of those DVDs online—something that they claimed was a private performance, and not public, and therefore only subject to the same kinds of restrictions as your local video store. (MORE: Judge Rules Against Remotely Watching DVDs over the Internet) A lawsuit over that defense was filed by the MPAA in May, and ruled in favor of the MPAA in August, but at the time, Zediva promised to appeal and &#8220;keep fighting for consumers&#8217; right to watch a DVD they&#8217;ve rented, whether that rental is at the corner store or by mail or over the internet.&#8221; That fight, however, ended late last week. According to MPAA SVP Dan Robbins, &#8220;This result sends a strong message to those who would exploit the studios’ works in violation of copyright law, on the Internet or elsewhere.&#8221; A statement on Zediva&#8217;s website says, in part, &#8220;We are suspending Zediva&#8217;s operations to comply with an order by the United States District Court for the Central District of California. While we hope to be back online soon, we don&#8217;t know when (or whether) that will happen. We are disappointed by this turn of events, and that we are not permitted to serve you.&#8221; [via The Hollywood Reporter] Graeme McMillan is a reporter at TIME. Find him on<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=101394&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Judge Rules Against Remotely Watching DVDs over the Internet</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s current suit against the video-on-demand provider. (MORE: MPAA Asks Judge to Shut Down Movie Streaming Service) Zediva is defending itself from a claim that it illegally streams movies online without the appropriate license by explaining that its business model means that each user is actually renting a physical DVD and watching that one DVD&#8217;s playback remotely, meaning that the company technically only offers private exhibition—although, admittedly, one that relies on online streaming as a delivery system. Per Zediva&#8217;s FAQ page: &#8220;When you rent a movie on Zediva, you are renting both a DVD and DVD Player in our data center. During the period of the rental, the DVD and the DVD Player can only be used by you.&#8221; Why not just offer straightforward streaming like Netflix? Because enabling remote access to physical DVDs lets Zediva offer new titles earlier than other streaming services—basically the same day they&#8217;re available on DVD. &#8220;Instead of getting explicit licenses from Hollywood studios to offer movie streaming to the public, the company believes it is merely &#8216;renting&#8217; DVDs for private exhibition,&#8221; notes the Hollywood Reporter. As it turns out, California federal judge John F. Walter isn&#8217;t buying that explanation. Citing existing law and reports from the House of Representatives about the public nature of the internet, Walter issued the injunction by explaining, &#8220;Defendants are violating Plaintiffs&#8217; exclusive right to publicly perform their Copyrighted Works by transmitting those Copyrighted Works to the public over the internet, without a license or Plaintiffs&#8217; permission, through the use of Defendants&#8217; Zediva service.&#8221; Both parties now have a week to agree on an injunction that fulfills the judge&#8217;s order to their mutual satisfaction. I wouldn&#8217;t be too surprised if Zediva decides to settle at some point during this week, despite a statement saying that the company &#8220;will keep fighting for consumers&#8217;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=92535&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MPAA Asks Judge to Shut Down Movie Streaming Service</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/05/31/mpaa-asks-judge-to-shut-down-movie-streaming-service/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 21:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;place-shifting private performance&#8221; site that allows subscribers to rent physical DVDs that are played in one central location, with the playback streamed to your own location through the internet. The discussion over whether or not that actually counts as a &#8220;private performance&#8221; has been going on for some time &#8211; Zediva has a previous high-profile court case on its side &#8211; but is anything but trivial for the parties involved, or anyone else in the VoD industry; Zediva&#8217;s definition of &#8220;private performance&#8221; allows them to stream any DVD movie online, without studio permission and, in many cases, ahead of any other VoD service having access to the same content. Unsurprisingly, the MPAA wants Zediva to quit it &#8211; and last week, they finally asked a federal judge to force that to happen, explaining that Zediva&#8217;s definition of its business model &#8220;omit[s] the fact that what they call a &#8216;very long cable&#8217; is in fact a transmission over the Internet, and not the handing over of a copy to a user. The transmission is what makes Defendants’ conduct a public performance under the statutory definition.&#8221; The MPAA believes that it&#8217;s found a prior case that equals Zediva&#8217;s legal standing: a Third Circuit decision that transmitting videos into a private viewing booth counted as public performance. And it makes the request in the middle of ongoing legal discussions between the two parties. Thursday&#8217;s request was merely a preliminary injunction, and has not, as yet, been granted.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=84808&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does &#8216;Place Shifting&#8217; Make Movie Watching Public or Private?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/05/12/does-place-shifting-make-movie-watching-public-or-private/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 19:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When is streaming movies online not streaming movies online? That&#8217;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 beset similar services in the way that it operates; instead of traditional VoD, Zediva allows subscribers to rent a physical DVD that will be played at its central location, with the signal transmitted to your location via the internet. In this way, all the company is legally doing is &#8220;place shifting&#8221; a private DVD playback &#8211; something that has already been allowed by a federal appeals court in a 2009 DVR-related lawsuit. The MPAA, however, disagrees with the &#8220;place shifting&#8221; definition, preferring the more traditional &#8220;public performance,&#8221; which would mean that Zediva is breaking studios&#8217; copyright with each transmission&#8230; hence the lawsuit. Both sides have lawyered up with well-respected copyright attorneys, including veterans of cases involving Google, Comcast, Universal Music Group, Limewire and other high-profile clients, and it&#8217;s expected to be a much-watched case. Considering the outcome could affect all VoD enterprises going forward, I&#8217;d be surprised if it could be anything else. But I wonder whether it will count as a public performance or private event&#8230;? More on Techland: Zediva&#8217;s Movie Rentals Are 50% Cheaper Than iTunes Live TV Comes to iPad, But You&#8217;ll Have to Stay Home Digital Privacy: If You&#8217;ve Done Nothing Wrong, Do You Have &#8216;Nothing to Hide;?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=82100&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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