The Streisand Effect» Movies http://www.thestreisandeffect.com When trying to block information backfires Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:36:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 MPAA promoting another site they hate http://www.thestreisandeffect.com/200804/mpaa-promoting-another-site-they-hate/ http://www.thestreisandeffect.com/200804/mpaa-promoting-another-site-they-hate/#comments Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:11:36 +0000 admin http://www.thestreisandeffect.com/?p=87 MPAA promoting another site they hate is a post from: The Streisand Effect

]]> Is the MPAA this stupid, or does it just look that way?  Once again, they’re suing a website for copyright infringement and the result is that the site is getting a ton more traffic.

The site in question this time is Pullmylink.com, which links to sites that have various movies and TV shows online for you to watch. That’s right — the site being sued doesn’t even host the infringing content.

However, this story has already hit TechDirt and Reuters (and The Movie Blog, nobosh, cdrinfo, film-industry, etc), and is sure to get much bigger before it’s over.  I had never heard of this site before, but now I have.

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