January 18, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to reports released Monday, two Web hosting companies based in Dallas, Texas were caught up in the Motion Picture Association of America’s crackdown on Web site and server operators involved in the illegal online distribution of movies and television content.
December 15, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to reports release on Tuesday Hollywood movies studios sued numerous operators of computer servers that help transfer digital movie files across online file-sharing networks. The copyright infringement suits expand on a new US film industry initiative whose first targets were individual file-swappers. The defendants this time run servers that use BitTorrent, now the program of choice for online sharers of large files, which includes more than 100 server operators.
