Movie Industry Preparing File Sharing Suits

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Published: November 5, 2004

Hoping to head off the kind of rampant online piracy that has plagued the record industry, Hollywood's major movie studios said yesterday that they would begin filing lawsuits this month against people who make copyrighted films available for downloading over the Internet...

The move is the first major initiative for Dan Glickman, the former congressman and agriculture secretary in the Clinton administration, who in September became president of the Motion Picture Association of America...

Independent experts, however, remain unconvinced that litigation works. Jonathan Zittrain, an expert in Internet law at Harvard Law School, said the lawsuits had had "an insubstantial effect," given the millions of people still downloading copyrighted music.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/05/business/media/05film.html