Jason Dunn
11-05-2004, 04:08 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://news.com.com/Hollywood+lawsuits+to+strike+Net+pirates/2100-1025_3-5438931.html?part=rss&tag=5438931&subj=news.1025.5' target='_blank'>http://news.com.com/Hollywood+lawsuits+to+strike+Net+pirates/2100-1025_3-5438931.html?part=rss&tag=5438931&subj=news.1025.5</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Hollywood studios are about to take the long-anticipated step of firing a barrage of lawsuits at some of the most prolific Internet pirates, echoing the legal strategy that the recording industry already has used with limited success. The civil lawsuits, which will be filed against individual movie file-swappers starting Nov. 16, represent a kind of legal escalation for an industry that fears its films eventually may be shared on the Internet as widely as songs are today."</i><br /><br />Sounds like the hammer is about to drop on people sharing video files in the same way it did on audio file swappers. I respect the rights of the creative people who make movies, but I don't think this is the right solution to the problem.