MILWAUKEE Nov 2, 2005 — A 67-year-old man who says he doesn't even like watching movies has been sued by the film industry for copyright infringement after a grandson of his downloaded four movies on their home computer.

The Motion Picture Association of America filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against Fred Lawrence of Racine, seeking as much as $600,000 in damages for downloading four movies over the Internet file-sharing service iMesh.

The suit was filed after Lawrence refused a March offer to settle the matter by paying $4,000. Interestingly Kori Bernards a spokesperson from the MPAA claimed that illegal downloading of movies via the net is costing the industry the princely sum of 5.4 billion US Dollars! Question, why would MPAA annual losses due to net piracy via use P2P software, be almost identical to the losses claimed by the RIAA in it's annual report for losses due to net piracy? , especially when we have two distinct industries with differing income streams!!!! Besides which,any halfway decent lawyer using the Chan defense precedent, where the RIAA lost big time, in a very similar case, could blow this baby literally out of the water! At this rate of net piracy usage claims from both MPAA & RIAA, it seems to imply that over 90% of the traffic on the net is carrying illegal copyright material, so how do the normal users and industry cope, with the remaining limited bandwith???? Besides which any halfway decent lawyer can apply the Chan defense, where the RIAA lost a case which has many similarities to this one, and totally blow this case out of water literally! link at ABC news
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wir...C-RSSFeeds0312 Oh well, such is life, in a sea of industry propaganda!