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Pirate Bay switches to tougher tech

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While news that the Pirate Bay, the biggest hub of online pirated content, has taken down all of its torrent links might seem like a reason for celebration in Hollywood, studios may want to keep the champagne corked for a while longer.

The infamous website, which has been a haven for people to download copyrighted content for years, stopped serving torrent files late Tuesday — but immediately switched to a new file-sharing system that will make it harder, Pirate Bay believes, for officials to determine who has downloaded a file using the site.

Read more at Daily Variety

Biz relieved over Court’s vidgame ruling

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The Supreme Court’s ruling on Monday that violent videogames are a protected form of free speech comes as a relief not just to the gaming industry but to the rest of Hollywood.

The high court, in a 7-2 decision, struck down a California law that attempted to restrict the sale of violent games to minors. The industry had been closely watching the ruling because it feared that if the law were upheld, it would carve out an exemption to the First Amendment that could eventually extend to violence in movies and TV shows.

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4chan hacks MPAA, RIAA websites

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Frequenters of infamous U.S.-based website 4chan.org have declared war on Hollywood.

Its users led the charge in a distributed denial of service attack on the MPAA and RIAA websites Monday — blocking their pages for hours.

The move, say the anonymous attackers, was in retaliation to action the orgs have taken to squash filesharing sites such as Pirate Bay.

Read more in Daily Variety

Hackers bring down MPAA, RIAA sites

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If you had trouble accessing the Web sites for the MPAA and RIAA earlier today, you’ve got 4chan to blame. 

The infamous Internet imageboard (and hangout of film piracy advocates) launched a coordinated DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack on the industry sites Monday – allegedly in a retaliatory move for the trades’ moves to squash filesharing Websites.

Read more at Variety’s Technotainment blog

Showbiz calls for end to vidgame ban

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A slew of entertainment industry orgs have joined together to file a brief with the Supreme Court in support of the vidgame biz’s efforts to overturn California’s ban on the sale or rental of violent vidgames to minors.

The biz’s concern is that the law restricting the sale of vidgames because of their content could have far-reaching First Amendment implications. The issue at stake in the challenge to the law isn’t whether publishers can make violent games, but whether states can impose sales restrictions on those titles — effectively declaring them to be on the same level as pornography and therefore able to legally limit their sale to adults.

Read more at Daily Variety