ANTI-PIRACY campaigns by the Hollywood movie industry looks to have paid off after the closure of a leading peer to peer website.
Having targeted the P2P music sector in a high-profile campaign in recent years, now the entertainment industry is bringing its guns to bear on online movie piracy.
And as a result the Suprnova.org, one of the most famous and prolific P2P filesharing sites on the BitTorrent network, is thought to have closed.
BitTorrent operates by allowing users to share files, with sites such as Suprnova offering a link to the files rather than actually hosting it themselves.
Software, music, games, films and TV programmes are all regularly shared by enthusiasts of the BitTorrent network.
However, the Motion Picture Associaion of America has started targeting servers hosting BitTorrent links - rather than individual users - in an effort to stamp out internet piracy of new films.
And after filing 100 lawsuits against BitTorrent server sites, their efforts seem to be paying off with a number of torrent websites - most notably Suprnova.org - closing their doors.
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Ben Holmes, Manchester (27/12/2004 at 23:16)
My tax money is spent on enforcing these laws rather than the dangerous laws which protect us from real criminals.
My friends get attacked in the city, my neighbours broken into and someone sells drugs openly on the street... instead of using my tax money to pay for court time and police costs to help prevent this, Mr Blair allows our courts time to be wasted to help increase a foreign company's income.
I shall be joining the p2p unite campaign and not buying any form of entertainment between 24th and 30th of April.
They have to realise that piracy was always there, but now kids spend there money on so much more than a CD or cinema ticket. They buy computer games, phones, top up cards and clothes.