MTV Partners With Bruckheimer For Game Studio

MTV and producer Jerry Bruckheimer have partnered to develop a new video game development studio. Bruckheimer, producer of Top Gun, and Walt Disney’s successful Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise among a long list of film and TV hits like CSI, said he plans to do for video games what he has done for other genres of content. MTV Networks, a division of Viacom, has set aside more than $500 million to invest in video games,...

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TorrentSpy Drop-Kicked By Federal Judge In MPAA Copyright Lawsuit

A federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled against TorrentSpy.com, the BitTorrent indexing site, in a case brought on by the Motion Picture Association of America for copyright infringement. The Judge stated that TorrentSpy’s “hiding and destruction of evidence” made a fair trial impossible, and impacted the ability for the movie studios to prove its case. “The court finds that plaintiffs have suffered prejudice,...

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