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ORLANDO, Fla., Sept. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- PandaLabs, Panda Security's anti-malware laboratory, last Friday witnessed what could be the first organized mass cyber protest on the Internet, which targeted the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). The RIAA and MPAA had contracted with an Indian software company to shut down free file-sharing sites such as The Pirate Bay, driving users of the popular 4chan user group to call on its...
Piracy activists have targeted websites owned by the music and film industry to perform coordinated attacks. The Motion Picture Association of American (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) were temporarily knocked offline because of the assault. The attacks were reportedly in retaliation for anti-piracy efforts against file-sharing websites. The activists group has declared on message-board 4chan that it will continue to target other sites. The British...
Major studios and big theater chains should rectify the ratings system now WASHINGTON, July 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Three years after the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) announced they would include smoking when assigning ratings to films, a new report shows that more than half of widely released films showing tobacco were youth rated (that is, carrying a rating of G, PG or PG-13). According to this analysis, the film...
Middle-school children whose parents restrict access to R-rated movies are substantially less likely to start drinking than their peers who are allowed to see such films, a new study suggests.In a study of nearly 3,600 New England middle school students, researchers found that among kids who said their parents never allowed them to watch R movies, few took up drinking over the next couple years.Of that group, 3 percent said they had started drinking when questioned 13 to 26 months after the...
COLLEGE PARK, Md., March 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- New research from the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business and Yale University School of Management finds films from well-known producers and directors receive more lenient parental guidance ratings by the Motion Picture Association of America than those produced by independent distributors or unknown producers and directors, an advantage that can lead to wider distribution and higher revenues at the box office....
ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- DrivingSales (www.drivingsales.com), the auto industry's leading social media platform and largest online community, today announced award winners in the first annual DrivingSales Vendor Ratings Awards. The Awards measure dealer satisfaction with vendors by allowing dealers to publicly rate and review their vendors in a real-time, anonymous - yet verified - setting. Vendors who achieve the highest rankings in dealer satisfaction, as determined by the...
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Rentrak Corporation (Nasdaq: RENT), today announced the Top Ten movies of 2009 in North America based on consumer spending from each key movie distribution platform including theatrical box office, home video sell-through, home video rental and transactional video-on-demand (VOD). Cross-platform insights include: Five of the Top Ten theatrical box office movies of 2009 (North America) are also included in the Top Ten selling DVDs of 2009...
RealNetworks has been ordered by a U.S. judge to cease sales of its DVD copying software that film studios argued could be used as a tool by pirates to create bootleg copies of films, AFP reported.District Court Judge Marilyn Patel in California handed down the injunction to RealNetworks on Wednesday. The Seattle-based digital media specialty firm said in a release: "We are disappointed that a preliminary injunction has been placed on the sale of RealDVD. We'll determine our course of...
A black Labrador, trained to sniff-out DVDs, has discovered a cache of 35,000 DVDs in Malaysian warehouses, industry officials announced on Wednesday.The pirated discs were likely intended to reach Singapore, officials from the Motion Picture Association (MPA) said in a statement.The pup, named Paddy, led officials on the hunt to uncover the large cache of illegally copied DVDs. Paddy has been trained to seek out the scent of chemicals found in the discs."Paddy led enforcement officers...
Honorees will headline opening night of the inaugural Politics on Film festival WASHINGTON, May 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) announced today it will present the first annual Leaders Award to Dan Glickman, Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) and Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack (R-CA). The award will be presented at this evening's Opening Night Party of the Politics on Film festival, which will be hosted by Mrs. Mary...
