The Motion Picture Association has launched a new offensive against camming and it`s called Operation Blackout, an aggressive anti-piracy enforcement initiative scheduled to run until January 31, 2008 in 13 countries and territories. This operation is focused on preventing the camcording of newly released titles in theatres.
“Illegal camcording remains a high priority with our member companies. We will ramp up our anti-camcording activities during these region-wide blitzes which are a key component of our annual enforcement operations” said the MPA`s Senior Vice President, Mike Ellis.
The 13 countried and territories covered for Operation Blackout are: Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand.
The 2nd part of this operation is the launch of MPA`s web site. The interactive site which includes a DVD training package provides movie staff and management advice and guidelines to prevent unauthorized recordings of movies. The site has been rumored to be hooked up with all sorts of tracking/trojan/malware bugs.
