More MPAA Suits Expected in Piracy Fight
The Motion Picture Assn. of America is expected to step up its legal assault on film piracy today by announcing a crackdown on two resilient hotbeds of illegal file sharing: BitTorrent tracker sites and EDonkey servers.
The former help people use BitTorrent software, a popular and highly effective tool for copying films and other large files. The latter enable users of EDonkey software to find and download movies and other files stored on other users’ computers.
The move is part of a new, larger legal offensive by Hollywood studios, which last month sued more than 200 unnamed defendants it alleges were online movie pirates.
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