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Default Leaked MPAA Memo Reveals TV-Shack Press Strategy

Leaked MPAA Memo Reveals TV-Shack Press Strategy
By Ernesto


A leaked “memo” from the MPAA shows how movie industry insiders are being briefed to respond in media interviews on the extradition case of TV-Shack admin Richard O’Dwyer. In the talking points the MPAA describes the UK student as a deliberate criminal while mocking his wardrobe. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, who launched a petition to stop the extradition, is called out as “presumptuous” by the movie industry group.

Last year Richard O’Dwyer was arrested by police for operating TVShack, a website that listed user-submitted link to TV-shows.

The UK student has since fought a looming extradition to the US, but thus far without success. In March, Home Secretary Theresa May officially approved the extradition request from US authorities.

In June the case was once again brought to the attention of the mainstream press when Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales launched a petition to stop the extradition. According to Wales, Richard O’Dwyer is a victim of the entertainment industry’s attempt to censor and control the Internet.

The MPAA were not amused with the campaign and behind the scenes began to brief movie industry insiders on how to respond. In a leaked memo obtained by TorrentFreak we see how the group lists “basic talking points” and background on the case for “reporter briefing.”

The memo starts by framing TV-Shack as a pirate website through which O’Dwyer made a healthy profit.

“Richard O’Dwyer created TVShack.net, offering thousands of stolen movies and other pirated content to viewers in violation of both U.S. and U.K. law. In fact, O’Dwyer actively advertised the amount of money users would save by illegally streaming content via TVShack rather than by acquiring it legitimately. At the same time, he profited handsomely from advertizing on the site.”

The claim of O’Dwyer supporters that Internet freedom is at stake is nonsense according to the MPAA.

“This case isn’t about Internet freedom. It’s about a man profiting from theft. However, we do welcome a larger discussion about how best to protect intellectual property online while ensuring an Internet that works for everyone.”

Taking it a step further, the MPAA claims that the movie industry is one of the main beneficiaries of “freedom of speech and expression,” which copyright law helps to protect.

“Copyright law is a tool to protect the work of creators and makers, not censorship. The motion picture industry wouldn’t exist without freedom of speech and expression, which have been among our ‘time-honored’ core values for over a hundred years.”

The memo then discusses some background on the case, with a fictitious Q&A with a reporter. The first question asks for a response to the Jimmy Wales petition, and the answer is clear.

“We think it’s presumptuous of Mr. Wales to claim to speak for the ‘general public.’ That’s because the ‘general public’ includes the hundreds of thousands of creators and makers who create and make the compelling entertainment and content that virtually all of us enjoy on a daily basis. Their hard work deserves to be protected.”

“We don’t believe in unlimited copyright, as Mr. Wales suggests. We do believe, deeply, that our values don’t change just because technology improves. And that people’s values don’t change whether we are online or off.”

The memo then goes on to describe how the TV-Shack website worked and what O’Dwyer’s role was. The MPAA sees O’Dwyer as more than just a middleman, mentions how he continued after ICE seized the domain name, and points out that the operator of a similar website was recently convicted in the UK.

“O’Dwyer was not a mere ‘middleman.’ He knowingly set up a site with the purpose of acting as a clearinghouse for infringing content – he advertised his site as a place to find movies that were still in theatres and in-season tv shows. He profited heavily from this activity. To call him a ‘middleman’ suggests a lack of involvement in the illegal activity, which is simply not the case.”

Finally, the MPAA writes that the TV-Shack admin is not just “a regular college student who likes playing with computers.” Despite wearing a Mickey Mouse sweatshirt, he is fully responsible for his actions.

“Being 24, posing for newspaper photo shoots in a cartoon sweatshirt, and having your mother and Jimmy Wales speak for you, does not mean you are incapable for breaking the law.”

While the memo doesn’t include any shocking revelations it’s intriguing to see how carefully the MPAA briefs its friends. The full memo with some extra details is embedded below.

Meanwhile, Jimmy Wales’ petition to stop the extradition is nearing a quarter million signers.



Geeze I have a lot of problems with these actions. First what diplomat did ICE and the DoJ go through when going after these sites they claim to be criminal? Pretty much they ignored it and went right to the home town police, which isn't how you do international relations. The same thing was done for the confiscations of Dajaz1, Rojadirect, and Megaupload. ICE lost the first two cases they did. Rojadirect was ruled legal in Spanish courts not once but twice. No evidence of infringement occurred for Dajaz1, despite claims to the contrary by the RIAA. After illegally holding the site's domain for a 1½ years, it was quietly given back.

The copyright industry is trying its dangest to make file sharing a criminal offense but it's not; it's civil. The punishments for civil rarely involve jail time (almost non-existent) using the punitive damage of fines and the remedy of payment to the injured party. The reason they have to have it as a criminal offense is that civil offenses are not extraditable offenses.

Then you have folk like the above (Richard O’Dwyer) who have no connection to the US at all yet are charged with crimes (as in criminal to get extradition) who have committed no crime in their own country. I suppose the US should be fine with extradition requests from Saudi Arabia for women who don't wear burkas, drive, and think they are equal to men rather than subservient. I see no difference in the two if this is the way the US is going to operate.

The owner of NinjaVideo has been sentenced to 2 years in jail, being a US citizen, she was pretty much railroaded into the sentence by a kangaroo court.

The copyright industry has been trying to get everyone to think a hyperlink is the equivalent to infringement. But a hyperlink itself contains no material that is infringing. It's about location not protected works. Yet as you see in this case, hyperlinks is what is being claimed to be the damaging work.

I always laugh when I hear this business of making substantial money off ads from sites. You ever tried that? They don't make enough money off the ads to pay server costs, much less domain fees too. But that's substantial income? Get over it and get a life. It is the goal at all times to make it appear to be a commercial operation making money off infringement because the punishments are higher. These copyright industries have yet to show how much they are loosing in income from any site, which is a requirement for civil law, choosing instead to use special congressional loophole of statutory infringement that allows them to do a blanket claim. Having to show a damage of $2 an mp3 or $10 to $15 per movie as a ticket price wouldn't amount to the claims of damage they make. Look at the Limewire case, where the RIAA claimed damages were something like 75 trillion. More money than the entire US government has printed. More money than the recording industry has made since it's historical beginnings up to today. It is neither realistic nor as it is painted.

The whole talking points are a way to walk around the real issues of totally being out of the US jurisdiction and avoiding the issue of illegal operations by the US government against the requirements of their own laws.
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