Torrent Latest News & Update: Major Hollywood Studios Offer Suggestions to Intensify Fight vs. Movie Piracy

Torrent sites can be the way to go for people wanting to get a copy of their favorite films. While the laws and regulations about these websites can be really complicated, these are viewed by Hollywood companies as one effective vessel of movie piracy.

Now, some of the biggest Hollywood movie studios recently forwarded suggestions on how the fight against movie piracy can become more effective, which will apparently affect regulations concerning torrent sites. Overall, the companies think that a help from the government is the major boost they need.

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) recently submitted official letters to the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to address the issue (via TorrentFreak). The MPAA’s members include Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., Sony Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Universal Studios, and Walt Disney Studios. Considering the much longer list of their subsidiaries, it is safe to say that MPAA’s suggestions and opinion matter.

In their lengthy suggestions, the MPAA is most noticeably seeking for the stricter regulation on hosting providers and WHOIS data. In the long run, this could greatly affect the way people use torrent sites and files.

Hosting providers allow individuals and organizations to put up their websites on the internet, like torrent aggregators. They handle the facilities while their customers usually pay a monthly fee to keep their sites active online. TorrentFreak noted that laws in the United States classify hosting providers as “neutral intermediaries” while in the eyes of MPAA, they should be held more responsible on the issue of movie piracy.

In MPAA’s letter to IPEC, the movie studios association requests that the IPEC should establish more defined parameters in keeping tabs on the WHOIS data to end movie piracy. Meanwhile, torrent users outside the United States do not get the level of restriction in accessing torrent websites. With that, the MPAA is looking forward to making the regulations be felt outside the United States through “international level of copyright protection and enforcement.”