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Welcome to MediaAbuseLLC

2010-05-04T23:40:00.000-06:00

What we do

MediaAbuseLLC does what you don't have time to do: We search for illegal, pirated and "boot-leg" videos, video files, images, and other digital content from all over the world.

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After being authorized by you, we legally but relentlessly pursue avenues of action to remove YOUR stolen media content that may be appearing on internet hosting and storage websites, torrent sites and "peer-to-peer" groups and applications. This is a time consuming process and since we are monitoring the internet, we can remove content much quicker, thereby saving you lost revenue.

If after following these time consuming channels, we find the abuser is non-responsive, we can advise you on how best to escalate the matter, and perhaps seek monetary damages. But we are very good at getting the content removed quickly and thoroughly.

With your authorization, we demand removal of all illegal copies of copyrighted videos, video clips, images, and DVD "rips". Content is found using our 24 hour automatic online searches via state of the art processes as well as our famous human searches by our former pirates (believe me, they know where to look!)

By subscribing to the service, you will receive a report of what sites have your content, number of downloads, and screen capture for legal record. You will also receive a "Damage Assesment" report that will summarize the level of loss you may be incurring. You will receive a report when content has been verified as removed as well.

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Adult Star Vicky Vette Sues RapidShare for Stealing Content

2010-04-22T04:25:00.000-06:00

By Bob Johnson

Thursday, Apr 15, 2010

LOS ANGELES —Adult star Vicky Vette has filed a lawsuit against RapidShare A.G. claiming the company repeatedly uploaded her content and provided it free to web surfers.

Vette said she is the first major adult star to file a lawsuit against RapidShare.The suit was filed in Los Angeles County.

According to Vette's attorney, Michael Kernan, the suit centers around Vette's right of publicity. Kernan said that under California law, any actor has the right to protect their name and likeness. RapidShare, Kernan said, is illegally using Vette's likeness and content to sell memberships to its sites.

"RapidShare is trying to redefine itself as a Google, when in fact it is more like Napster and making a profit out of selling pirated content. It's downloading copyright protected material," Kernan said.

"The adult industry has complained bitterly about torrent sites and file sharing sites like RapidShare destroying the business, but for some reason no one has stepped up to the plate and done anything about it. Instead of whining, I decided to put my money where my mouth is, and retained an attorney to sue them. I have lots of popular exclusive content like my 'Lavatory Occupied' series that is repeatedly available on RapidShare for download without my permission."

Vette said she decided to sue after repeatedly sending cease and desist letters that were ignored by RapidShare.

"RapidShare promised me they would "filter" their content, but I just found 'Lavatory Occupied'... once again... sitting on their servers and free to the world. I think it must be deliberate, or they just don't care.They seem to feel they are immune to action," Vette said.

"Anytime I mention this to other people in the business I am shocked that they shrug their shoulders and seem resigned to the stealing that is going on. Napster was forced to comply with the law after being sued. I am hoping to set an example. Just because my content is adult does not mean that it is not worthy of protection. It costs me money to make it, and it is valuable to me. Just a couple of months ago a comic book publishing consortium got an injunction for similar infringing behavior against RapidShare. I figured that it was a great time to strike," Vette said.

RapidShare's U.S. attorneys were not available for comment at press time.
In a related story, XBIZ reported today that Perfect 10, which also filed a suit against RapidShare won a motion to deny RapidShare from postponing a preliminary injunction hearing set for May 12 and moving the venue to Germany. The hearing will be heard in San Diego District Court as originally scheduled.
“RapidShare didn’t want a U.S. court to have the opportunity to hear the case," Perfect 10 owner Norm Zeda told XBIZ. "They wanted the case tried under German law."

Zada filed a preliminary injunction April 12 against RapidShare, saying the company is stealing, copying and selling his copyrighted material.
RapidShare's response in a memorandum stated that Perfect 10 has declined to provide RapidShare with the links to files it asserts are among hundreds of millions of user files on RapidShare’s site, which RapidShare would gladly remove if Perfect 10 shared this information.

According to Zada, RapidShare admits to selling the content, but not to copying it, saying the material ended up on its servers, which are located in Germany, through anonymous third parties.

RapidShare claimed it's a storage site where users can store and share files and view licensed content, including video games and movie trailers from Warner Brothers in Germany.

But Zeda argued, "They’re not a storage locker. RapidShare is the greatest infringing paysite of all time. They’re making $80 million a year that belongs to American studios and producers.”

Zada said he has lost $60 million fighting the good fight, adding the U.S. government doesn’t help the cause by not offering copyright protection.
Both Zeda and Vette said they will continue the fight.

Vette asked others in adult who think they are victims of RapidShare to email her and she will refer them to her attorney.
Vette can be reached at vicky@vickyathome.com.
Original article here: http://www.xbiz.com/news/legal/119666

ACTA treaty aims to deputize ISPs on copyrights

2010-04-22T04:16:00.000-06:00

Internet service providers could become copyright cops encouraged to block access to suspected pirate Web sites, according to a previously secret draft treaty made public on Wednesday.
One section of the proposed digital copyright treaty says that immunity from lawsuits would be granted to Internet providers "disabling access" to pirated material and adopting a policy dealing with unauthorized "transmission of materials protected by copyright." If the ISPs choose not to do so, they could face legal liability.

Both the Obama administration and the Bush administration had rejected requests from civil libertarians and technologists for copies of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA. Last year, the White House went so far as to invoke an executive order saying disclosure would do "damage to the national security."
But after the European Parliament voted last month by a 633-to-13 margin to demand the release of ACTA's text, keeping it secret became too politically problematic for the countries represented in the closed-door negotiations. Besides the United States, the European Commission, Australia, Canada, Japan, and New Zealand are among the nations participating. They've been egged on by copyright lobby groups.
Much of the language in ACTA has been anonymously proposed by one nation or another but is not final, and it's not clear whether the "disabling access" section will remain. Another nearby paragraph does say, in a nod to privacy concerns, that governments should not "impose a general monitoring requirement" on broadband providers. The language does appear to go further than U.S. laws governing broadband providers and copyright.
The wording is slightly different from an earlier draft, which talked about yanking the accounts of "repeat infringers" and was leaked last month by a French digital rights group.
The European Union published the draft text of ACTA on its Web site on Wednesday, along with a statement from EU Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht saying concerns about the document's sweep were "unfounded."
De Gucht noted, for instance, that suspected language such as a "three strikes" rule for broadband customers and a "gradual response" for suspected infringement was not in the ACTA draft.
In general, ACTA's proposals seek to export controversial chunks of U.S. copyright law to the rest of the world. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act's "anti-circumvention" section, which makes it illegal to bypass copy protection even to back up a Blu-Ray disc, is in there. So is the No Electronic Theft Act's concept of making it a crime to copy a sufficient quantity of software, music, or videos -- even if no money changes hands.
While the public draft version of ACTA wouldn't prohibit border guards from searching travelers' gadgetry for infringing files, nor would it appear to require that action. That has been one of the concerns of groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Public Knowledge, which have criticized the draft treaty.
The U.S. Trade Representative said in a statement last week that recent ACTA negotiations in New Zealand were "constructive." The next meeting is in Switzerland in June.
Update late Wednesday: By now, there has been a flurry of responses to the release of the ACTA draft, including the Motion Picture Association of America saying it is an "important step forward" and deserves to be adopted. The Copyright Alliance likes it too. Public Knowledge, on the other hand, remains concerned that ACTA attempts "to export a regulatory regime that favors big media companies at the expense of consumers and innovators." The Computer and Communications Industry, which has often cast a skeptical eye toward laws expanding copyright, says the release confirms "fears that the agreement will unreasonably increase the legal exposure of U.S. technology and Internet businesses operating abroad."
Original article here: cnet news

Rapidshare stung with €24m fine

2009-06-24T22:25:00.001-06:00

Rapidshare stung with €24m fine

German royalties collector chalks up big win

By Kelly Fiveash • Get more from this author

File hosting service Rapidshare has been fined €24m by a German court and ordered to filter online content more effectively.

German royalties collector GEMA, which brought the case against the company, had called on the Regional Court in Hamburg to order Rapidshare to prohibit around 5,000 music tracks from being made available online.

"The judgment states that the hosting service itself is now responsible for making sure that none of the music tracks concerned are distributed via its platform in the future," according to a GEMA statement (in German).

"This means that the copyright holder is no longer required to perform the ongoing and complex checks."

Additionally, the court ruled that Rapidshare and other file sharing sites had not taken enough preventative measures to halt copyright breaches taking place via the service.

"The judgment... marks a milestone in GEMA's efforts to combat the illegal use of music works on the internet," said the organisation's CEO Harald Heker.

"GEMA will continue to do everything it can to shield its members from online piracy. We are confident that in this way we will be able to reduce the illegal use of the GEMA repertoire on the internet to a negligible level."

Rapidshare could not immediately be reached for comment at time of writing. ® Original article here

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2009-05-05T00:19:00.001-06:00

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Rapidshare Shares Uploader Info with Rights Holders

2009-04-26T22:56:00.002-06:00

In Germany, the file-hosting service Rapidshare has handed over the personal details of alleged copyright infringers to several major record labels. The information is used to pursue legal action against the Rapidshare users and at least one alleged uploader saw his house raided.

Like many new releases, Metallica’s latest album “Death Magnetic” was uploaded to the popular file hosting service Rapidshare one day prior to its official release date last year. Since users don’t broadcast their IP-address or distribute files to the public directly though Rapidshare, it came as a surprise when the police raided the house of an uploader a few weeks ago.

At first it was unclear how the identity of the uploader was revealed, but today German news outlet Gulli said it had found out that this was likely to be accomplished by creative use of paragraph 101 of German copyright law. It turns out that several record labels are using this to take legal action against those who share music on Rapidshare.

Previously the paragraph was only used by rights holders to get the personal details of those who share copyrighted works on file-sharing networks. It basically enables the copyright holders to get “permission” from a civil judge to ask ISPs to disclose the personal details of a user behind a certain IP. Now, however, this also seems to be the case for file-hosting services such as Rapidshare, which is based in Germany.

This of course opens up the possibility for rights holders to go after a wide range of file-hosting services and potentially even BitTorrent sites. Indeed, everyone who now uploads a torrent file to a site hosted in Germany is at risk of having his personal details revealed. Although it will be impossible to prove that the uploader actually seeded the file it might be seen as assisting in copyright infringement.

Pretty much all torrent sites keep track of the IP-addresses of their (.torrent) uploaders, and if the rights holders can get the IP-address of people who upload to file-hosting services such as Rapidshare, they can easily extend this to BitTorrent sites hosted in Germany. A dream come true for copyright holders, but a nightmare for the privacy of Internet users.

Too bad for Metallica’s Lars Ulrich who only just started sharing files himself...

from TorrentFreak

Software That Copies DVDs Is on Trial

2009-04-24T12:49:00.001-06:00

By BRAD STONE Published: April 23, 2009 The New York Times

SAN FRANCISCO RealNetworks says it wants to help increase DVD sales by allowing people to copy their movie discs. Hollywood studios say that idea will only hurt their already struggling business. The two sides square off in a federal court here on Friday to determine who prevails.

The case is ostensibly about RealDVD, a $30 software program that allows users to save digital copies of Hollywood DVDs to their computers — a capability the movie industry strenuously objects to, worrying that it will stimulate piracy and undermine the budding market for digital downloads.

But the outcome of the trial, set against the backdrop of plummeting DVD sales, could also have more far-reaching effects on the future capabilities of the DVD player — a device connected to millions of television sets.

Before it started making RealDVD software for computers, Real was also developing DVD-saving software that it hoped to license to manufacturers of DVD players, according to the company’s executives and legal filings in the case.

That software, which the company refers to by its internal name, Facet, would allow companies like Sony, Samsung and Toshiba to sell DVD players capable of making digital copies of all discs, even movie DVDs that have anticopying software, called C.S.S.

The owners of those devices could save copies of their DVDs to watch later — much as people use digital video recorders like TiVo to save live television programs.

Real has built a prototype of a Facet device that runs on the Linux operating system, which is used in many digital set-top boxes. The device can hold about 70 movies, which take up to 20 minutes to copy.

RealNetworks executives have said they were inspired by Kaleidescape, a Sunnyvale, Calif., company that makes high-end DVD players (the price is more than $10,000) that can save hundreds of movies on a hard drive. Kaleidescape was challenged by the DVD Copy Control Association, which administers the C.S.S. encryption, but won. Read more

Pirate Bay Wants to Plunder Facebook

2009-03-30T21:25:00.001-06:00

New feature allows for adding of torrents to profile

By Edward Duncan at AVN Business
03/30/2009

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - The Pirate Bay wants to plunder Facebook with file-sharing. The BitTorrent tracker site has launched a new feature that allows Facebook users to add torrent listings to their profiles.

The move has already drawn the ire of Europe's International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. Facebook was not available for comment.

According to TorrentFreak, the new torrent-adding program, "Share on Facebook" takes just one click to place a favorite torrent on one's profile page. A viewer can than click on the torrent listing and if a torrent client is already in place, downloading begins automatically without visiting the Pirate Bay site.

The verdict in the recent Pirate Bay trial, accusing the site of perpetuating illegal file-sharing, is yet to be delivered. Meanwhile, the new add-to-Facebook feature follows recent news that the site is also offering a privacy service called IPRED, designed to foil the tracking of ISP addresses, keeping them anonymous.

Pirate Bay co-owner Peter Sunde said he hasn't seen complaints over the new site feature, but also added such complaints are quickly deleted.

However IFPI has complained elsewhere, telling Swiss newspaper 20 Minuten if the new feature is used to offer copyrighted torrent links, then it's a violation and illegal in Switzerland, citing a similar case over the site ShareReactor. There's little doubt rights holders will have the same reaction in most other nations.

While it could be argued that Facebook users may list perfectly legal torrents to personal content they wish to share, the concern is the floodgates will open wider for rampant sharing of pirated content.

TorrentFreak reports that two weeks ago the Brazilian recording industry pressure brought the closure of Google social network page Orkut, boasting nearly a million members. But a new group quickly took its place.

Pirate Bay's Sunde added that his site did not ask Facebook for permission to offer the new feature.

"They monitor their portal every day - they should have noticed it long ago," he said.

Searches on The Pirate Bay bring up adult content featuring Jenna Jameson and Tera Patrick, among others.

Read the original article at AVN Business

Judge tells RIAA no damages without proof

2009-01-26T17:16:00.001-07:00

19 January 2009 13:10 by Rich "vurbal" Fiscus

The RIAA is no stranger to outlandish legal arguments in P2P copyright infringement cases. This isn't particularly surprising given that they've very successfully avoided arguing most of them in court, preferring instead to use the obstacle of expensive litigation to frighten defendants into settling. But sometimes a judge gets the chanceto shine a light on their creative readings of thelaw. In one such case a federal judge has denied the RIAA's claim for damages on the grounds that they must first prove their losses.
It seems like an obvious enough point. For example, it's a long established tenet of contract law that you can't sue for losses over a deal you might have made with someone. And if someone steals physical merchandise you can't get restitution from a list of what you think was probably stolen. But music, movie, and software conglomerates have always characterized every free download of a copyrighted work as a lost sale.
In a decision related to the criminal copyright case against Daniel Dove, Chief United States District Judge James P Jones noted "The downloaders in this case could have purchased songs over the Internet, rented movies, borrowed DVDs from the local library, or purchased CDs or DVDs at the full purchase price. But the victims have not made any attempt to assess how many Elite Torrents downloaders would have used these various alternatives or no alternative at
all."
He was referring to requests from both the RIAA and movie studio Lionsgate Entertainment in which each asked for restitution based on some interesting calculations. Judge Jones agreed that the RIAA "provides proof that 183 sound recording albums were transferred through Dove’s server a combined total of 17,281 times" but questioned the claim that "member companies suffered economic loss in the amount of $124,768.82." Among other problems he pointed out "RIAA only proves that the first 20 albums are held by record labels that are RIAA members; there is no such proof as to the remaining 163 albums."
Lionsgate didn't fare any better. Although they were able to provide the actual number of copyrighted works involved which they owned, they then used an assumption that every title was downloaded an equal number of times to "prove" how many times their copyright was infringed on and that number to calculate lost sales.
The judge was also critical of the prosecutors for backing the RIAA and Lionsgate damage claims. "there is no direct evidence that each unlawful distribution of an RIAA member company’s album through the Elite Torrents network diverted a sale from that company,” he noted. He added "The government finds RIAA’s estimated losses reasonable because it calculates loss based on only 20 of the 183 albums in the Elite Torrents tracker database, but there is no suggested logical basis for making the calculation based on 20 albums as opposed to 1 or 100 albums."
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German file-sharers now have less to worry about

2008-08-16T17:10:00.001-06:00

15 August 2008 14:50 by Andre "DVDBack23" Yoskowitz | 5 comments

Citing thousands of file-sharing violation investigations that will take too much of its time, the General Prosecutor’s Office of the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia has said they will no longer prosecute misdemeanor file-sharing and will instead only prosecute "commercial-scale" file-sharing.
In an interview with Jetzt.de, Axel Steel of the office says a "commercial file-sharer is someone who shares over €3,000 of material". He feels that songs are worth one euro a piece and movies are worth €15. That is exactly the way it should be, not $10,000 USD a song, or whatever the RIAA feels like charging per song.
Of course you are steal breaking the law if you pirate music but the Prosecutor’s office does not have the man power to prosecute the expected 50,000 violations for 2008.
The official then went on to compare marijuana to file sharing saying "both are very popular among youths...it is illegal to consume it, but people do it anyway, and the authorities can’t be bothered in frying smaller fish as it’s a waste of time and resources. Going after the big distributors is the way to go."

original article here at afterdawn.com

Jury Convicts Web Site Operator in P2P Case

2008-07-02T15:21:00.001-06:00

By GRANT GROSS, IDG News Service\Washington Bureau, IDG Published: June 27, 2008

A former administrator at EliteTorrents.org has been convicted of conspiracy and felony copyright infringement in a Virginia court, the first time in the U.S. that a peer-to-peer user has been convicted by a jury of copyright infringement, the U.S. Department of Justice revealed Friday.

Daniel Dove, 26, formerly of Clintwood, Virginia, faces a maximum sentence in prison for his participation in EliteTorrents.org, a Web site that specialized in releasing copyright works without authorization, the DOJ said. EliteTorrents, which ceased operating in May 2005, used BitTorrent peer-to-peer technology to distribute pirated copies of movies, software, music and video games, the DOJ said.

A jury in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia was presented with evidence that Dove was an administrator of a small group of EliteTorrents members known as "Uploaders," who were responsible for supplying pirated content to the group.

Dove recruited members who had high-speed Internet connections, usually at least 50 times faster than a typical high-speed residential Internet connection, to become Uploaders, the DOJ said. Dove operated a high-speed server, which he used to distribute pirated content to the Uploaders, the agency said in a press release.

Dove's conviction is the eighth plea or conviction resulting from Operation D-Elite, a nationwide federal crackdown against the illegal distribution of copyrighted movies, software, games and music over P2P networks using BitTorrent, the DOJ said.

Operation D-Elite targeted leading members of EliteTorrents. At its height, EliteTorrents attracted more than 125,000 members and distributed about 700 movies, which were downloaded a total of 1.1 million times, the DOJ said. In many cases, digital works were available on EliteTorrents before they were released to the public, the DOJ said.

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some comments from Bryan at Chaosmen.com

2008-06-24T19:45:00.004-06:00

Some recent comments from Bryan Ockert at Chaosmen.com:
"MediaAbuseLLC is doing great! I think most companies have a small staff..and they think that staff can cover it. Not true..who wants to pay a staff members taxes, unemployment and insurance to comb the net and find stolen content...

We had a conference call on Friday and I mentioned the 85 or so files you had found and had removed, in just 3 days.

I don't think $100-150 bucks a month is too much to have this kind of service. But then again..I am the only employee here, so the idea of paying a small fee for someone to "inhibit" file sharing…seems like a fantastic idea to me! Sign me up!" Bryan Ockert - Chaosmen.com

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2008-06-17T21:01:00.002-06:00