Movie industry launches fresh peer-to-peer attack
11 February 2005
The film industry has filed its second lawsuit in the United States against file-sharing networks.
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), an umbrella organisation for major movie studios, also announced that it had succeeded in closing down peer-to-peer network LokiTorrent down.
LokiTorrent used the BitTorrent file-sharing system and is the latest victim of the MPAA's legal campaign against network operators. The operators of LokiTorrent agreed a settlement with the MPAA.
A Dallas court agreed that Hollywood lawyers would be allowed access to LokiTorrent's server records which will help them identify web users who have been sharing files illegally.
The second wave of lawsuits have been filed in jurisdictions across the United States, but the MPAA has declined to reveal the exact number.
The action, against computer networks that use peer-to-peer software, known as BitTorrent and eDonkey, enables computer users to swap digital files of movies and television shows that, in some cases, have been copied illegally.
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