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Planning to publicly allow users to watch the new Harry Potter movie or other TV Shows without charge? Then you better to keep your service hushed up. YouTVpc and Peekvid who both offer their users to watch streaming TV shows and movies without charge are being nailed down by MPAA.

The founders of YouTVpc gave an interview to Wall Street Journal and just yesterday MPAA breathed down its neck and filed a lawsuit of online copyright infringement. YouTVpc and Peekvid have linked to other sites outside US in providing their users with endless free of charge streaming TV shows and movies.

MPAA claimed that the major studios experienced a terrible loss of more than $7 billion in 2005 although this fact is not proven.

“Sites like YouTVpc and Peekvid contribute to and profit from massive copyright infringement by identifying, posting, organizing, and indexing links to infringing content found on the Internet that consumers can then view on-demand by visiting these sites,”

“YouTVpc and Peekvid rely on advertisers to maintain their illegal websites and they profit handsomely from a seemingly endless stream of third-party advertising pitches.

Peekvid – whose servers are located in San Antonio, Texas – averages over 53,000 unique users per day who view over 184,000 pages of content. YouTVpc – whose servers are located in Scottsdale, Arizona – averages more than 6,000 unique daily visitors who view over 21,000 pages of content per day.

In addition to advertising revenues, operators of YouTVpc solicit monetary donations through a “Donations” tab on the website that allows users to make financial contributions through PayPal.com.”

Dan Glickman, MPAA leader, also went further that big studios such as Time Warner, Fox, Sony, NBC Universal and Disney are being attacked unrelentingly by such sites. It’s not their own pockets that those big studios are thinking, it is also the sake of their support workers.

The entertainment industries have quite a long history when it comes to hammering other companies who could potentially disrupt their competitive advantage. One of the grey areas that they seem to permanently target is file sharing. Needless to say that several businesses have gone extinct thanks to the relentless lawsuits, however the numbers of new companies keep growing as illustrated by these quotes.

“The Internet’s graveyard is deep with companies that have been sued out of business by the entertainment industry. I think the prevailing sense is that they are winning the battles but losing the war. Despite the lawsuits, there is more file sharing than ever.”

“We are rooting out those who enable copyright infringement on the Internet. We will continue to take such actions against sites that are profiting from the theft of other people’s creative works…Our strategy is to go after people committing copyright theft on the Internet at all levels.”

“The lawsuits are little more than ’scare tactics’. The MPAA is using legal muscle to scare people but really they are the ones who are afraid. They fear technology but technology always prevails.”

The first quote is from Fred Von Lohmann who is the advocate for EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation), while the second is from Hollywood MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) and the third is a retaliation statement from Peter Sunde, The Pirate Bay co founder. The Pirate Bay was also a target of MPAA.

Quoted from Greg Sandoval’s CNET News article:

“Seven years after a judge ordered Napster to halt music swapping, online piracy continues to thrive. Some estimates hold that the large video and music files passing back and forth over the Internet chew up more than a third of the Web’s bandwidth. Meanwhile, the movie industry is following in the footsteps of the record companies by waging prolonged legal battles.”

In accordance to these lawsuits, TorrentSpy who previously said that it will never monitor users’ activities now follow the safe road by logging its users’ activities following a successful lawsuit from MPAA. MPAA used bribery as its last resort in bringing TorrentSpy down. Dean Garfield, MPAA’s legal director of affair, have promised informant US$15,000 for stealing TorrentSpy information.

“Dean Garfield expressly told the informant, on behalf of the MPAA, regarding the information that he requested, “We don’t care how you get it.” He assured the informant, when the informant expressed concerns about potential liability for obtaining or providing such information to the MPAA, that the MPAA would protect the informant from any liability for obtaining or providing such information.”

Isohunt has traveled the same route taking the cue from TorrentSpy by establishing FileRights, which is a filtering service designed to please the big entertainment industries. These advances have brought worry to the people that the ‘scare’ tactics, as quoted by Peter Sunde above, do really work in scaring the companies.

As quoted from this press release, EMI has signed a deal with Snocap to sell DRM (Digital Right Management) free high quality MP3s. This deal will enables songs download of several artists and will become another form of distribution rather than traditional online stores.

“Artists whose tracks will be available via SNOCAP MyStores at launch include 30 Seconds to Mars, The Almost, Ryland Angel, The Bird and The Bee, KORN, Joe Lovano, Dean Martin, MIMs, Relient K, Saosin, TobyMac and Yellowcard,” says EMI.

It’s time to get familiar with the Snocap widgets as they will be displayed on the EMI artists’ websites. Although the number of artists is still few, you can bet that there will be more to come very soon. EMI’s Blue Note record will also collaborate in this project by featuring SNOCAP MyStores in its front page.

And you can bet that the recording giant will also utilize the power of social book marking by enabling blogs and other third party sites to put the widgets on their site. Although this seems like an encouraging development EMI and other big recording companies need to learn about appreciating their customers.

Accompanied by Warner Music, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG, they have barraged the customers with potential lawsuit in order to get their products sold. But at least EMI have taken the first step, let’s see whether the rest will follow suit.