UK Court: MPAA Not Entitled To Profits From Piracy

jfruh writes "The MPAA and other entertainment industry groups have been locked for years in a legal struggle against Newzbin2, a Usenet-indexing site. Since Newzbin2 profited from making it easier for users to find pirated movies online, the MPAA contends they can sue to take those profits on behalf of members who produced that content in the first place. But a British court has rejected that argument."

Apparently running Newzbin gave a good lifestyle

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and another company Motors for Movies, which owns the McLaren car Harris uses, Newey wrote.

I assume that would be a McLaren F1, cost 0.5M pounds when new, now worth significantly more.

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Re:Dear MPAA

[Anonymous Coward]

The MPAA creates things ? I thought the artists did.

Re:Asphalt Manufacturers Too!

[Anonymous Coward]

Not quite. Newz2bin pretty much just archived binaries that were posted to usenet. They may knowingly have done this, (hell that's the only incentive to use usenet at all after spam destroyed it from being useful for anything else.) But the piracy scene on usenet is mostly old-school. The actual distribution system for pirated material is more like
Pirate (ripper) -> IRC -> Bittorrent -> Usenet