my first cease and desist from mpaa!
 

I run parkedsouth.com. I just got a cease and desist from the MPAA. Anyone know about any of this stuff? I thought trey parker and matt stone publically stated they don't care if people download southpark online

Truc-Linh N.Nguyen (MPAA) wrote:
> Truc-Linh N. Nguyen (MPAA)
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> March 29, 2007
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> [Submitted electronically through website at http://www.parkedsouth.com/addsite.php]
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> Re: www.ParkedSouth.com
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> To Whom It May Concern:
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> We represent the Motion Picture Association of America ("MPAA") and its members Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., Disney Enterprises, Inc., Paramount Pictures Corporation, TriStar Pictures, Inc., Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Universal City Studios, LLLP, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. The MPAA member studios are the owners and exclusive licensees of copyrights in and to a vast number of motion pictures and television shows.
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> We are writing to notify you of the extensive copyright infringement of motion pictures and television shows that is occurring by virtue of your operation of www.www.ParkedSouth.com. Some operators of sites like yours apparently believe that they are not liable for copyright infringement if they do not actually host video files. That is incorrect. Under U.S. copyright law, those who display or perform copyrighted works without authorization and those who assist, facilitate, or induce infringement by others are themselves liable.
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> By indexing, linking to, framing, transmitting, retransmitting, providing access to, and/or otherwise assisting users in streaming, infringing copies of motion pictures and television shows emanating from various unauthorized sources on the Internet, you are violating U.S. copyright law. The MPAA member studios demand that you immediately cease such activities and take steps to ensure that your website does not infringe upon the copyrights of MPAA member studios? movie and television shows in the future.
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> Attached as Exhibit ?A? is a list of some of the ?Movie? and ?TV Shows? on www.ParkedSouth.com that are owned or controlled by MPAA members and that are being infringed by www.ParkedSouth.com. The attached list is provided to highlight a representative sample of the infringements being committed as a result of your operation of www.ParkedSouth.com and to demonstrate the readily apparent nature of the massive infringement occurring thereon. The list is not intended to suggest that the identified infringements are the only ones occurring on www.ParkedSouth.com or are the only ones that you must immediately and permanently remove.
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> www.ParkedSouth.com
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> We hereby demand that you immediately cease and desist from using www.ParkedSouth.com to directly and indirectly cause, contribute to, enable, facilitate, induce, encourage, and participate in the infringement of the MPAA member studios? copyrighted works, including but not limited to those works identified on the enclosed list. In particular, we are demanding that you, within 5 days of the date of this letter, stop indexing, linking to, providing access to, or in any way contributing to the infringement of copyrighted works owned by the MPAA member studio and ensure that links to these and other motion pictures and television shows whose copyrights are owned by these studios do not appear on www.ParkedSouth.com in the future, unless you obtain proper authorization from the relevant copyright owner. Moreover, to the extent that you or your agents are involved in uploading unauthorized copies of the MPAA member studios? copyrighted works onto third party websites to which your and/or other websites link, you must immediately and permanently desist from such activities.
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> We believe this information should prove sufficient for you to locate the infringing activities complained about herein and to remove links to copyrighted television shows and movies that are being unlawfully disseminated as a result of www.ParkedSouth.com?s activities.
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> We are providing this notice based on our good faith belief that the use of motion pictures and television shows owned by the MPAA member studios in the manner occurring via www.ParkedSouth.com are not authorized by the copyright owners, their agents or the law. This notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, we are authorized to act on behalf of the owners of the exclusive rights that are being infringed. This letter is without prejudice to the rights and remedies of the MPAA member companies and their affiliates, all of which are expressly reserved.
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> Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
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> Sincerely,
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> Truc-Linh N. Nguyen
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> Encl: Exhibit A
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> Exhibit ?A?
> www.ParkedSouth.com
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> SOUTH PARK
> SOUTH PARK: SEASON 1
> SOUTH PARK: SEASON 2
> SOUTH PARK: SEASON 3
> SOUTH PARK: SEASON 4
> SOUTH PARK: SEASON 5
> SOUTH PARK: SEASON 6
> SOUTH PARK: SEASON 7
> SOUTH PARK: SEASON 8
> SOUTH PARK: SEASON 9
> SOUTH PARK: SEASON 10
> SOUTH PARK: SEASON 11
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> IP ADDRESS: 66.252.135.3

Thanks for the heads up... I am enjoying "Southpark 11x01 - With Apologies to Jesse Jackson" right now!

you are clearly infringing dude, what were you thinking?

all the videos are embedded off dailymotion youtube myspace and some other sites, I dont see how im infringing anymore then google is.

Too bad US law doesn't apply in Canada?

I'm gonna just kill the videos on the site, but leave them up as broken embeds. This site made a sorry ass $1000 total so its really not worth fighting for.

Do i stand to make more money from a parking page or what?

Canadian copyright laws still apply, as well as international. Come on, you don't honestly think you can hide in Canada from US copyright law?

Then you still have to deal with the image as well?

trey parker and matt may not care, but I'm sure the distibutors of their videos do

Trey and Matt don't... but Comedy Central has been on a rampage lately going after everyone, including youtube for having their shows online.

well, i broke the embed links so the pages are still up but the videos are down. Hopefully that'll make em fuck off while making revenue for long as possible.

Dammit... can you relink 11x02 for a minute?

Fuck! Youre gonna get sued for 200k!!

www.allsp.com
Now gfy is guilty of what i am too!

lol, i clicked on one of the season 11 episodes from that site and it loaded up w/ a myspace watermark in the corner..!