{"id":3644,"date":"2004-12-13T22:39:31","date_gmt":"2004-12-14T02:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2004\/12\/13\/mpaa-sues-p2p-indexers\/"},"modified":"2004-12-13T22:39:31","modified_gmt":"2004-12-14T02:39:31","slug":"mpaa-sues-p2p-indexers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2004\/12\/13\/mpaa-sues-p2p-indexers\/","title":{"rendered":"MPAA Sues P2P Indexers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a989'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Along with their <A href=\"http:\/\/mpaa.org\/CurrentReleases\/2004_11_04_PressRelease.pdf\">lawsuits against individual infringers<\/A>, it seems the MPAA is now going to go after BitTorrent trackers and eDonkey server providers.&nbsp; According to <A href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2004\/12\/13\/new_mpaa_lawsuits_ag.html\">this report<\/A>&nbsp;(via <A href=\"http:\/\/www.corante.com\/copyfight\/archives\/031592.php\">Copyfight<\/A>), they play the same role as Napster&#8217;s indexing servers.&nbsp; Professor Felten <A href=\"http:\/\/www.freedom-to-tinker.com\/archives\/000580.html\">predicted<\/A> this months ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with their lawsuits against individual infringers, it seems the MPAA is now going to go after BitTorrent trackers and eDonkey server providers.&nbsp; According to this report&nbsp;(via Copyfight), they play the same role as Napster&#8217;s indexing servers.&nbsp; Professor Felten predicted this months ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-ideas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}