$4 million in fines for contributory copyright infringement

[tickler]

Seems to be a major push going on in the copyright arena.

Hollywood has been granted another victory in its war against piracy, this time at the expense of two linking sites that the Motion Picture Association of America believes profited from enabling copyright infringement. Both ShowStash.net and Cinematube.net have been hit with multimillion dollar judgments recently for copyright infringement of various movies and TV shows.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...-in-fines.html