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• MPAA anti-piracy software not as bad as reported, but still stupid
  Sunday 30 January 2005 – 10:46
  We all know that it's not just that the MPAA doesn't want you watching unauthorized content on your PC, but that they're mad about whole digital media thing and they wish that, with the exception of DVDs, it would just go away.
• MPAA files lawsuits against torrent, eDonkey and newsgroup sites
  Friday 24 February 2006 – 09:12
  The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) announced that is filed another wave of lawsuits against file trading sites to "shut down major pirate networks."
• TorrentSpy Ordered To Pay $110 Million to MPAA
  Friday 9 May 2008 – 12:00 in Business
  {{A Los Angeles federal court has ordered BitTorrent indexing web site, TorrentSpy, to pay copyright infringement fines of just over $110 million to the MPAA.}}
• BitTorrent and MPAA reach agreement: Service will take down links to "illegal" content
  Wednesday 23 November 2005 – 01:14
  Bram Cohen, the creator of BitTorrent, and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) have agreed on a deal where illegal content will not be linked to on the www.bittorrent.com website. The site will no longer host links to copyright protected content from the seven major studios of the MPAA.
• MPAA sued for hacking
  Friday 26 May 2006 – 10:16
  P2P outfit Torrentspy is suing the Motion Picture Association of America for hiring a hacker to steal information from it