This united effort is an important step forward in our effort to protect creative content, promote the legal marketplace, and safeguard the viewing experience for our consumers worldwide. So what could this new coalition bring to the table that might be an actual threat to pirates? I'm guessing some legal mumbo-jumbo probably written in Sharpie on a whiteboard, summed up nicely in this buzzword laden statement from Kimberley Harris, EVP and General Counsel, NBCUniversal:ĪCE will enhance our ability to reduce online piracy by maximizing the collective knowledge of its members and leveraging the world-class antipiracy operations of the MPAA. We just don't need 100 spin-offs to NCIS, just saying. How about this ACE companies, you stop pumping out crap content (which most of it is - trite repetitive junk created for the sole purpose of making money) and it'll stop getting pirated. These companies want us to care not for their bottom line, but for the poor, suffering artists themselves. This language was specifically chosen to elicit sympathy from the masses instead of indifference. Go ahead and read the statements from the ACE partner companies - it appears as if creativity itself is being threatened. This was the entire gameplan of the MAFIAA, the 'six strikes' or Copyright Alert System. Stop it with the torrents nice neighbor and we won't throttle your internet or fine you. If you are like this guy I know that isn't me, you've been ignoring those dumb letters from your ISP that try to warn you off pirating movies. Cut off one head, another sprouts up in its place. That hasn't stopped the stream of torrents. The two organizations somehow decided on the name MAFIAA and have worked to remove the internet piracy superstars from their thrones. That is, they used one legal firm instead of two to send out threatening copyright infringement letters. Years ago, the MPAA and RIAA also joined forces to fight piracy. It could lead to arrests and site take-downs, or it could lead to absolutely nothing. At this time it's hard to tell if this is anything more than a show of hands. Stop the torrents! This is bad for those of you leeching the latest episode of Silicon Valley right? Well, maybe.

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