Motion Picture Association of America

A Dirty Mind Comes Home

"Bully": Upsetting Case Studies Surge Call to Action

Center for Copyright Information: An Anti-piracy Measure That Makes Sense

About seven years ago, I read something online about a then-recent episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Overcome with the desire to watch the episode for myself, but without a subscription to HBO, I fired up LimeWire, the now-defunct file-sharing software, and quickly found the episode I wanted. An hou ... More >>

The RIAA Responds Lamely to Claims of Piracy Advocates

​TorrentFreak, a news site that basically supports illicit downloading, last week used a half-assed ISP-lookup service to conclude that employees of both the Recording Industry Association of America and the Department of Homeland Security had downloaded illicit copies of various copyrighted works ... More >>

The Stop Online Piracy Act: The Owner of San Francisco's Burning House Records Explains His Support

​You've probably heard some rumblings about the Stop Online Piracy Act recently. And in all likelihood -- especially if you watch major news channels like CNN -- it's probably all sounded pretty bad and pretty scary. Casey Shafer owns and runs Burning House Records -- an independent, San Francisco ... More >>

Google, Facebook, Others Fight Legislation to Stop Online Content Piracy

​A veritable who's who of major tech firms in San Francisco and the Silicon Valley are fighting federal legislation aimed at putting a stop to theft of original content online.The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) would allow content creators to seek court orders barring internet service providers, se ... More >>

Judge Halts Weird Online Movie Service Zediva

​In March, Zediva, a really weird online movie-rental service, told Wired that "it doesn't expect legal trouble over its service," which allows users to watch actual DVDs, played on actual DVD players, via the Internet. A couple of weeks later, the Motion Picture Association of America sued Zediv ... More >>

Posting Copyrighted Music to YouTube Might Soon Earn You Jail Time

​You might want to think twice before posting that video of your cat "dancing" to a Lady Gaga song. Not just because nobody wants to see it, but because it might earn you a few years in the Federal pen. Yesterday the Senate Judiciary Committee recommended a bill for the Senate that would ma ... More >>

Google Doesn't Want to Help You Steal Music Anymore

via Modernhumorist.com​In an effort to deter the masses from pirating music and movies, Google has blocked certain terms related to media piracy from their instant search and autocomplete, including words like Bittorrent, uTorrent, RapidShare, and Megaupload -- all of which are Internet tools and ... More >>

"Blue Valentine": Breaking up is hard to do

via Modernhumorist.com​In an effort to deter the masses from pirating music and movies, Google has blocked certain terms related to media piracy from their instant search and autocomplete, including words like Bittorrent, uTorrent, RapidShare, and Megaupload -- all of which are Internet tools and ... More >>

Kirby Dick outs closeted pols and the media that protect them in Outrage

via Modernhumorist.com​In an effort to deter the masses from pirating music and movies, Google has blocked certain terms related to media piracy from their instant search and autocomplete, including words like Bittorrent, uTorrent, RapidShare, and Megaupload -- all of which are Internet tools and ... More >>

Remembrance of Demons Past

The Unborn raids the modern horror memory bank, from The Exorcist to Auschwitz.

Be Kind, Rewind Not Worth Renting

The Unborn raids the modern horror memory bank, from The Exorcist to Auschwitz.

Bad Blood

Horror films failed to scare up the big bucks in 2007

Dangermouse and Girl Talk talk Copyright

Horror films failed to scare up the big bucks in 2007

Unbunch Panties, Please

Hostel sequel is lame, tame, and totally not worth moralizing about

Repertory Film Listings

Hostel sequel is lame, tame, and totally not worth moralizing about

Repertory Film Listings

Hostel sequel is lame, tame, and totally not worth moralizing about

Sorry Raters

Raucous doc catches moral watchdogs with their pants down

The Reel Truth

Hollywood claims the sky is falling. To which we say, Puh-lease.

Strange Brew

The Truth is, Egoyan's latest is B-movie noir, with killer performances

Film Threat

Form-tweaking docs

Constricted

A PG-13 rating squeezes the life out of Anacondas

Summer Film Previews

A PG-13 rating squeezes the life out of Anacondas

Rites of Spring

Bernardo Bertolucci revisits young love with The Dreamers

Feeling Blue

In Porn Theatre, people go looking for lust in all the wrong places

The Entertainer

The Four Star's Frank Lee on turning the Presidio into a multiplex.

Half Great

Kill Bill's missing something -- like, oh, a proper ending

Fun Down There

Sex without death in gay director Todd Wilson's Under One Roof

Reel War

The Army and Hollywood join hands to wage virtual, bloodless battles.

Reel World

Lady in the Lake and Lethal Weapon 4

Reel World

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, I Went Down

Reel World

Eyes Wide Shut and Stonewall

Potty Mouth, the Movie

Eyes Wide Shut and Stonewall

Samples

Eyes Wide Shut and Stonewall