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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With the now available New Xbox Experience update, Xbox 360 owners have access to Netflix’s large “Watch Instantly” streaming service. However, some users will be disappointed when they see that there are a few films listed as “not available on Xbox.”
The movies not available are from Sony Columbia Pictures, and despite rumors, it is not because Sony happens to have a rival gaming console. It turns out that Netlix did not get a licensing deal completed in time, and the Netflix team admits to the snafu.
Steve Swasey, a Netflix spokesman, added that movie titles “come in and out of licensing all the time.” He said he hopes the missing movies will only be temporary.
“Today, titles regularly come in and out of license and there is a natural ebb and flow to what we have on license at any given point in time,” he explained. “In the case of Xbox 360, a few hundred titles are temporarily unavailable to be streamed via the Xbox game console. Those titles are still available to be watched on subscribers’ computers and on TVs via other partner devices, and we hope they’ll be licensed for Xbox 360 shortly.”
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The popular Chinese movie download site Jeboo has filed a lawsuit against the MPA for libel . The statement in question implies that Jeboo admitted to piracy as part of a past legal settlement. Jeboo claims it did no such admission.
MPA officials refused comment on the suit, which was filed in a Beijing court last week.
Back in September, Walt Disney Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Columbia Pictures, Universal Pictures and Paramount
Five studios sued Jeboo in Shanghai for “supplying Internet cafes with computer software that allowed users to download and watch illegal copies of 20 Hollywood movies, including “Hitch” and “Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest.””
Earlier this month the MPA announced that Jeboo had settled with the studios and that the defendants “confirmed the cessation of infringing activities,”, apologized to the studios and also paid monetary compensation.
Company official Xie Jiangping says the settlement is confidential but that Jeboo never admitted to piracy. “We cannot tolerate statements that don’t reflect the truth,” he added.
