xMule, the Linux port of eMule, the popular P2P client due to its unique way of finding files, has two developers.

The main developer, Un-Thesis, received a subpoena and had his internet connection shut down.

After some discussion, he's not in any big trouble and a court judge agreed with him that merely developing the program is no violation of the law.

Also, to make it clear that the MPAA lost this round of trying to stop development of this program, he released a new version containing many bug fixes - the first highly anticipated bug-free release.

I use this version currently, and it works extremely well.

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Also, the MPAA has been sending out many subpoenas to people using eMule to download movies. I see these letters posted on release forums like ShareReactor every day.

Half the time, they were incorrect in what they said people were sharing. For example, someone would be downloading The Matrix Reloaded, and they'd blame them for downloading The Hulk.

The few times they've been right with what people have been sharing, the people sharing the movies stopped for a few days, started up again (for months afterwards), and nothing else happened to them after the first letter.

The conclusion?

Nothing bad is happening to movie and music downloaders for the most popular of films and music. They're being blocked with ipfilter files (I tweaked an eMule mod, with an auto update of the ipfiltering file from a few sites, called eMule Morph Mod), so even if an eMule server shows someone as a source they can't download the file from them and prove them to have it.

Most of all, the above evidence shows they're not serious: they're merely executing a scare tactic that,after a few tries, simply isn't working.

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Eh, just take it from here, http://www.dmusic.com/forum/ihatetheriaa/5292

what the hell is the mpaa bitching about. almost every big budget movie grossed over more than they spent making that movie.

HA! HA! Can't win em all MPAA!

nyrangers; not really. If they have to pay an actor over 20million just for starring in it and another 40mill for the rest of the production, it adds up. The only one I have seen make their money back this summer is freddie vrs jason. Still strong at the boxoffice.

Perhaps if it wasn't over &8 a ticket, and food at the movie theaters wasn't about $3 a Snickers bar... I'd actually see it.

Go Expo.. I am boycotting the Riaa, but, dang, cuttin' out movies is kinda hard. We sometimes go to the second-run dolla flicks, tho..

I agree, Expose. The last movie I saw was the first Lord of the Rings and it only cost $6.25, but that's cause the theater I saw it at doesn't believe in charging out the ass to see a movie. Hell, I only paid $4 to see Attack of the Clones (matinee show). I smuggled in some candy, though. I just don't believe in paying $3 for a small drink.

Y'know, I think tonight was the first night I didn't see the "Don't download movies off the Internet so I can pay for my glasses" commercial. I guess they finally figured it was a waste of money.

I also call it the "Don't download movies off the Internet so we can take a bunch of your money and make Gigli 2" commercial.

This is incorrect. The MPAA is not subpenaing anyone for anything. A subpena would require someone to goto court. If we're fighting against this sort of thing, it's important that we acknowledge the difference between the two. The RIAA is infact sending out Cease and Desist notices. And not just to emule users, but users on IRC, Usenet, and various p2p clients. They send a Cease and Desist to your ISP with your ip address and the file shared basically telling your isp to make you stop uploading movies. Your ISP forwards the letter to you, none of your information is given out. Under the DMCA this can be done through email without a court order. The Cease and Desist is a warning saying that you don't have the right to post that sort of thing, so stop. There will be no legal action taken, and actually, in light of what the RIAA is doing, the MPAA's Cease and Desist campaign is quite responcible and should be respected as such. The RIAA could do the same thing in convincing people to stop sharing, but instead decided to sue everyone.

What you must remember is that the MPAA has the right to protect it's intellectual property, as does the RIAA. However the MPAA is doing so responcibly and in a respectful manner through cease and desist letters when they could just as easily take the RIAA approach.

Ahh, damnit, got it messed up.

The subpoena was sent out to the xMule developer, and a cease and desist letter to the people downloading movies.

I don't go to the theaters because of the cost for 5 people but I do rent them when they come out.
I rented Shanghai Knights a couple of weeks ago and noticed that there were a lot of "previews" from ads that weren't in the movie, leading me to believe that they are renting cut versions even when your paying for them so the next choice to see the movie is to download it.

I just searched google for kazaa.
They removed the results they were asked to remove, I'm sorry to say.
Well, sort of removed them

Kinda like the way they solved it. Do the search, and look at the bottom of the page

Aaarg! wrong article! sorry

If you are conserned about the cost of movie tickets , you might try what I did !
WABBITMAN

CriticalError: Actually it is quite common for movie previews to include scenes that are not in the final release of a film. The previews are often put together while the film is still being edited and some scenes selected to be placed in the preview may be cut from during editing.

Some examples are: Twister and Scooby-Doo. Both of these films included scenes in the previews that were cut from the theatrical release. I saw them both in theaters. It doesn't necessarily mean that they are cutting scenes when releasing on DVD.