Anti-Piracy Gang Launches their own Video Download Site to Trap People

Media Defender, a notorious anti piracy gang working for the MPAA, RIAA and several independent media production companies, just launched their very own video upload service called “miivi.com”. The sole purpose of the site is to trap people into uploading copyrighted material, and bust them for doing so.

Miivi claims to offer hight speed downloads of blockbuster movies hereby luring people into downloading copyrighted content.

EMI Licenses Snocap

EMI Music has now licensed its catalog DRM-free to Snocap, a move that quickly shuttles the label onto the pages of MySpace. Snocap carries a critical partnership with MySpace that enables artists to position downloads on their profile pages, and offers a revenue between all parties. The latest deal follows an earlier arrangement involving Warner Music Group, though EMI is the first major to lend DRM-free content to the alliance.

The Snocap deal follows an earlier DRM-free deal involving the iTunes Store. Like that arrangement, Snocap MyStores will sell EMI tracks at an elevated price point of $1.30. The tracks will also be encoded as higher-quality files, according to information supplied by the companies. That is part of a larger EMI philosophy that consumers are willing to pay more for higher-quality MP3s, though it remains unclear if the proposition is resonating. After positioning its DRM-free catalog on iTunes in late May, EMI has not offered substantive data on the collaboration.