Ten major movie studios have joined the Swedish legal-threat frenzy and have sued The Pirate Bay. The studios, including Disney, Warner Bros, Sony Pictures and Columbia Pictures have demanded a court order in Stockholm, Sweden for TPB to cease and desist helping its users to share movies whose copyrights are owned by the studios in question.
“We’ve been forced to seek a court order demanding that they stop the spreading of these roughly 100 films and television programmes”, the studios’ attorney in Sweden told to The Local, Swedish online news service. Studios’ request for injuction involves TV shows such as House and Grey’s Anatomy and movies including Matrix and Harry Potter series.
Studios name the TPB admins as the defendants, including Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Peter Sunde, as well Black Internet AB.
“They’ve been sentenced to prison for criminal activities but haven’t stopped carrying out those activities”, studios’ attorney told in an interview.
Studios join a legion of other content owners who have previously sued the company.
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In early May, Disney announced that it had obtained an equal equity stake in the popular online video site Hulu, giving it equal influence with founders NBCU and Fox.
Today, the first Disney/ABC content has become available on Hulu, with Grey’s Anatomy becoming the first series available. As it does with some other shows, only the 5 most recently aired episodes will be available at any given time.
There will be additional ABC content coming this week, says Disney but the content will not not be revealed except through the site’s Hulu Days of Summer .
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Apple has announced that all four of the major TV broadcasters; ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC, have agreed to offer programming in HD on the company’s iTunes platform.
The shows will cost $2.99, a premium over the $1.99 for standard definition and the company says there are about 600 shows available in HD on iTunes now.
Since Apple announced limited HD programming last month, they have sold over 1 million HD shows, most being NBC content that returned to the store after a one year absence.
A few of the new notable shows added are ABC’s “Brothers & Sisters,” “Desperate Housewives,” “Dirty Sexy Money,” “Eli Stone,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Life on Mars,” “Lost,” “Private Practice,” “Samantha Who?” and “Ugly Betty.” CBS programming includes “CSI,” “CSI: Miami,” “CSI: New York,” “NCIS” and “Numb3rs.” FOX shows include “Bones,” “House,” “Prison Break” and “Sons of Anarchy,” from FX.
Although I am sure the shows will sell extremely well, I’m not sure I understand why when pretty much all the content is available for free (with limited ads), and in HD, elsewhere on sites such as Hulu.
