InternetMovies.com Newsletter

IM NewsLetter | ISSN 1546-2110 | Volume # 45 | May 7, 2004

The InternetMovies.com Weekly Newsletter keeps you up to date with anything and everything there is to know about movies on the internet with special investigative reports, new movies/DVD release dates and news. Plus winners of our weekly Movie Giveaway.

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Special/Investigative Report
1.MUTE - Truly Anonymous File-Sharing?
So how does this keep your identity sealed? It uses methods of encryption to hide your host. Instead of seeing your IP address (ie. 123.45.678.9) you'll see a "virtual address", something like this: HA3D3DSKXME3654DSAD35DSD. It's almost impossible to decypher your real hostname. The only people in the MUTE network that see your actual IP address are those "seed nodes" that we talked about earlier. These seed nodes are the only ones making a direct connection to you, therefore all searches and file transfers come from those seed nodes. They have to know your IP address to be able to connect to you and send you information. However, these seed nodes do not know your virtual address. Therefore there is no way for anyone to connect your IP address to your virtual address on MUTE. There is on one exception however; that is if every seed node you connect to is owned by them, however this is a very unlikely scenario as the seed nodes you connect to are chosen in a pseudo-randomized way

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INTERNET MOVIE NEWS
MPAA Shakes In Their Boots At Oral Arguments At Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals In Hawaii; A Personal Account of Events

According to the article:

I arrived at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Hawaii at 9a.m. May 4, 2004, on the dot. On the other side was the MPAA lawyer with his family. It looked like he was using my case as a way to treat the family to a Hawaiian vacation and later write it off, maybe thinking that this case was a big joke. Not knowing that our lawyer, Jim Fosbinder would be solid as a rock talking to the three judges. Telling them in summary that no matter what no one has the right to shut down the free press without a court action. I will post the oral arguments ASAP so you can hear them.

As part of the argument against the wrongful shutdown, Jim told the court to look at the cover on Popular Mechanics, May 2004 issue and how they were telling customers that the new age dawns for aircraft powered by miniature nuclear reactors. Highly unlikely to be approved; especially in these times of international tension on anti-terrorism. Any political radical would love to get their hands on a flying nuclear bomb. Jim told the judges InternetMovies.com site was acting like Popular Mechanics, trying to get customers attention just like any other press to get memberships. Think about it; have you seen a movie trailer by Hollywood that looked good you go to see the movie and you feel like you just were hustled? This has happened to me lots of times. Hollywood’s foundation was built on sensationalism, and they shut down InternetMovies.com on an alleged false claim. Seems quite unfair.

In addition, Jim discussed 150 years ago the printing press was looked at as evil, due to the fact that someone could be made to look guilty in the public eye. The supreme courts held that you could not close down the press for portraying such an image without suing first. The first amendment was to be abided by, no matter what. This trial is all about following the good order of the law, but the MPAA closed down the InternetMovies.com press, under the flawed DMCA, without a care in the world about the first amendment. Judgment was passed onto InternetMovies.com by the MPAA without a fair trial.

So the MPAA gets their turn to present their case. The MPAA lawyer who looked calm as could be before our lawyer spoke now gets up there and starts to shake. I mean really shake, where it was so bad that we all saw it. Why was he shaking so badly? Not so much a piece of cake proceeding for the mighty MPAA. Maybe it was because his family was looking at him, waiting to get things over with so they could get to the beach. A serious trial wouldn’t be in Hawaii, right? I think it is because Jim did a good job and the MPAA lawyer was there to tell lies, lies, lies... just like they been doing for a long time.

I think about the thousands of dollars in press releases I have spent to get the story out there for the members and public, but no studio owned media like CNN, ABC... picks up the story. We are in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and I am fighting to keep the first amendment alive but Hollywood owns almost all the media outlets. There is no motivation for an MPAA member company to put bad press on itself. An ABC (owned by Disney = MPAA), reporter called me and did an hour interview with me over a year ago. I called him back about further correspondence, but he told me that InternetMovies.com is being blocked at ABC and he could not do the story since MPAA member studios own them. Well, well, well I think they call that censorship. Anyone in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals fighting the DMCA is on front page news but not Michael Jay Rossi of InternetMovies.com, I know why now. When the MPAA won the Rossi vs. MPAA in the District Court of Hawaii they did not tell a soul about it. Why did they not put out press releases? They put out press releases on all the other MPAA wins about the DMCA with other cases and posted it on their website. What makes my case not worth talking about? It is because they are 100% wrong and know it and do not want anyone to know about my case and my company. They are trying to cover up this mess that someone made in the MPAA. The MPAA told the court that they sent out over 30,000 cease and desist (C&D) letters that year and I was the only one to fight back. Well Ya! Who has the money and the time to fight back? It is damn scary to fight the MPAA! I know it took me one year to get over the fear of being killed and saying to my self: “I will die before they take my rights away from me”.

I am a Veteran and they told me when I joined the Army, Army Reserves and Army National Guard to protect the constitution of the United States of America from friends and foe and to kill and die for the rights that veterans before me died for. Dammed if they will step on my rights and others and take them away, when others are dying daily on the front lines fighting to preserve the very rights the MPAA is trying to dissolve from the constitution with lobbyists as we sleep.

The MPAA lawyer, shaking in his boots, continued to tell half truths in front of three judges of the United States of America for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals about me and my website. He was using a play on word "hustle" saying, that was my means of getting memberships to InternetMovies.com. I will not let go to the end and hope my members help with memberships to tighten the grip on the MPAA, and not let the snake go. The MPAA did not think in their dreams that one little man, a handicapped veteran, homeless just months ago trying to get off welfare with a new business idea backed with supporting Internet users that cared could take them as far as you and I have.

Thank you; thank you to my friends and supporting members. Jim Fosbinder, our lawyer, said sitting on Waikiki beach just after the dust settling; I bet you they wish they never set you that letter.

Help me get the word out there even more. Send this newsletter to your whole email list. The fight cannot die in the hands of censored MPAA member news firms. WOM (Word Of Mouth) and memberships are the most powerful weapon we have to fight them and restore our rights.

The People’s Advocate

Michael Jay Rossi President InternetMovies.com
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In search of truly anonymous file-sharing

According to the article:

"While media companies step up their legal crackdown on Internet song-swappers, separate teams of software developers — from the Middle East to Madrid — toil away on a foiling technology: an anonymous file-sharing network."
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MPAA: brainwashing children

According to the article:

"The RIAA's most recent marketing triumph has been to scam Penn State University and the University of Rochester into becoming record industry cops and salesmen. Unpaid, of course."

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Fair Rights bill gets a hearing

According to the article:

"The Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act (DMCRA) gets a Congressional hearing on May 12. "Representatives Rick Boucher and John Doolittle re-introduced the Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act (DMCRA, H.R. 107), which would enact labelling requirements for usage-impaired 'copy-protected' compact discs, as well as several amendments to 1998's infamous Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)," as the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) states it."

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Movie Piracy Bill Wins U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Approval

According to the article:

"A U.S. Senate committee approved a bill to crack down on movie piracy that costs Hollywood studios run by Sony Corp. and Vivendi Universal Entertainment LLC billions of dollars."

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Rossi vs. MPAA Oral Arguments to Be Presented in Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on May 4, 2004

According to the article:

"Michael Rossi, President of InternetMovies.com Inc., an online magazine promoting movies filed a complaint against the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) in April 2002, for the wrongful shut down of his internet web site http://www.InternetMovies.com for alleged piracy and copyright violation. The United States District Court of Hawaii ruled in favor of the MPAA, in May 2003. Thereafter, Rossi filed a Notice of Appeal, in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth District and is scheduled for oral arguments by James H. Fosbinder, Rossi's attorney and MPAA on May 4, 2004, 9am in the Court of Appeals in Honolulu at 1132 Bishop Street, 6th Floor Court."

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