Internet film provider sued
23 September 2004
A website which sells illegal downloads of current films is being sued by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).
The Encino-based trade group has announced it has filed suit against a company which tricks consumers into believing they are paying for legal downloads of films such as "I, Robot" and "Spiderman 2".
Click Enterprises has been targeted by the association in what could be the start of a much larger battle by the industry to wrest back control of its films from Internet piracy.
Current estimates from MPAA suggest the American motion picture industry loses over $3 billion in potential revenue every year due to piracy.
Those losses are increasingly down to Internet fraudsters, who are notoriously difficult to catch.
In a statement, John Malcolm, MPAA director of anti-piracy operations, described the websites as "parasitic", adding that they represent "the worst elements of the priate community".
The move will be seen as an attempt by the film industry to avoid the problems caused by Internet file-sharing which have already been suffered by the music world.
As computer technology has advanced, large files such as films containing massive amounts of information, have become as easy to download as the much smaller music files.
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