'Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment' - MPAA front organization, connected to vertical integration of Hollyweird and ISPs

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Some of you may have noticed that the large video upload sites Openload and Streamango went down around the start of this month.

This has been portrayed in the media as the result of legal action by an organization called the 'Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment'.

But this so-called 'Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment' does not exist as an actual organization- it is just a trademark registered in 2017 and used by the MPAA to hide their involvement in attacks on anyone or any business which allows their crap to be watched on the internet without further funding their disgusting activities. They haven't admitted they run this so called 'Alliance' beyond the initial press release.

Using this brandname, the MPAA has gone after a number of people- no longer just torrent sites, or the new streaming sites, but even the developers of addons for Roku and similar streaming boxes that allow a user to pick videos to watch from an RSS feed. Under the new brand, the MPAA is taking their war on freedom worldwide.

And now, they are not just shutting down sites which allow users to upload content and copyright owners to report any violations, like Openload, but allying with ISPs to create further globalized control mechanisms over what people do on the internet.

Comcast has become the first ISP to join the ACE anti-piracy coalition. Viacom also joined the anti-piracy organization this week.
Back in 2017, 30 media companies came together to form the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment. The ACE anti-piracy coalition is led by the MPA and aims to tackle piracy concerns on a global scale. Both Comcast and Viacom joined the organization earlier this week.

The growing coalition offers a completely different approach than the recording and broader music industry. At present, major labels like Universal Music Group, led by the RIAA, are actively litigating against multiple ISPs. Indeed, ISPs have mostly been at war with labels and major publishers over the past two decades. In the early days following Napster, ISPs unilaterally fought against lawsuits impacting their subscribers, with the RIAA often launching massive legal attacks on individual infringers.

Fast-forward to 2019, and that approach is falling out of favor on the film and TV side. Charles Rivkin, the Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association ⁠— says the anti-piracy coalition is thrilled to have Comcast on board.

“As the parent companies of two of our original members, they have been supporters of our efforts and numerous successes, but now as members, they will strengthen the legal and operational work we’re able to do to reduce the threat of piracy and support creators,” Rivkin remarked.

Both Comcast and Viacom own ACE members but were not a member of the coalition until this week. Comcast owns NBCUniversal, Sky, and Telemundo ⁠— all founding members of ACE. Viacom is the parent company of Paramount Pictures, also a member of ACE. It also owns UK Channel 5, which joined the coalition back in March 2019.

Among the list of more than 30 companies that make up ACE, Comcast is the first internet service provider.
The ACE anti-piracy coalition focuses on provision and distribution rather than end-users. But with Comcast and the Xfinity brand under the umbrella, will that anti-piracy strategy change?

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These new vertical integrations will be used to target the new 'pirates', like people who share Netflix passwords, and target them with legal action and other forms of harassment.

ACE to Crack Down on Password Sharing
After clamping down on pirated streaming TV services and sites that provide illegal access to movies still in theaters, a legal consortium backed by major Hollywood studios, OTT video giants and big pay-TV distributors is now also taking aim at password sharing and other methods used by consumers to access content without proper authorization.

The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), a group that has already slayed alleged video service pirates and services such as DragonBox and Set TV and contributed to the recent shutdown of Omniverse One World Television, announced Wednesday that it has formed a new working group focused on cutting down unauthorized access to content.

"The entertainment coalition will provide opportunities to share best practices and information on what facilitates unauthorized access, including improper password sharing and inadequate encryption," an ACE official told Light Reading via email.

In that sense, ACE is taking up a cause championed by Charter Communications and its CEO, Tom Rutledge, which has moved to elevate the password-sharing issue and secure buy-in from other programmers, media companies and distributors.

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Charter, the newest member of ACE, has already begun some work with Disney and Fox to standardize that effort, holding that out-of-control piracy and password-sharing are harming the pay-TV business and will only get worse as media companies push ahead with their own direct-to-consumer streaming products.

"There is some recognition in the programming industry that they are now distributors," Rutledge said last week on Charter's Q3 earnings call. "And as a result of being distributors...they need to know where their content is going...It's just too easy to get the product without paying for it."

Why this matters
The new working group opens up a new area of focus for ACE and its legal team, which has had success targeting criminal cases involving services that use the Internet to market and sell illegal pay-TV services and provide unauthorized digital access to TV shows and movies, including titles that are still in theaters.

Meanwhile, the digital era has led to an "explosion" of new, legal streaming platforms, Charles Rivkin, chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association and ACE chairman, explained in a statement. "But its openness has also brought challenges like piracy and unauthorized access that compromise the intellectual property that supports content creators and the economic viability of their work."

Getting ACE on board will also help Rutledge and Charter fulfill their mission to get more video and pay-TV media companies behind an effort to reduce password-sharing and other methods that consumers use to access content without payment or proper authorization.

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[ScamL Likely]

I love how it promotes the exact opposite of what its name implies. Very 1984, much doublespeak.

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

The coalition is wrongly named because we all know Hollywood has lost any semblance of creativity. They also won't do shit because people will find ways around it. The MPAA is the old man who refuses to get with the times.

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

Can't wait until they go after sites like Netflix or YouTube. Because you know they damn well will.

The coalition is wrongly named because we all know Hollywood has lost any semblance of creativity. They also won't do shit because people will find ways around it. The MPAA is the old man who refuses to get with the times.

Can we just put it out of its misery yet? Like, why keep it on life support when it doesn't want to die willingly?

 

[Pargon]

Leave it to media conglomerates to form an interest group with an acronym belonging to an internet subculture built around not getting laid.

 

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The current spokesman for this MPAA front group is a male with an adopted child named Hunter, who he may or may not abuse, who is named Richard F. Vanornum or Richard F. Van Ornum. Born 23rd of April 1983. He appears to live in Los Angeles, having moved there from Boston, MA.

California voter records seem to need a lot of information to search them, so I haven't really bothered with that. Donation records do provide some more clues as to his location.

A former spokesman for this front group at the time the scam started was Zoe Thorogood. At that point the organization advertised contact numbers. They do not at this point.

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Thorogood is a former chief of staff at the UK 'Conservative' party.
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Both are employees of the disinformation propaganda company 'APCO Worldwide', which appears to be the MPAA designated PR firm for at least this arm of their operations.

Can't wait until they go after sites like Netflix or YouTube. Because you know they damn well will.

Don't count on it. In the brave new world, Google is going to join the MPAA and provide information on your searches for 'neoopenload south park s34e02' to their litigators.

 

[I Love Beef]

Hey Alliance For Creativity And Entertainment, Suck My Fucking Cock, and suck off the rest of your faggot coffers. Ask your precious money to save you too, before you need to take that grey poupon and shove it right up your ass.

Let's get this fuckin' cyberpunk hellride on the road already. Jack In, Hack the Planet.

Also, YOUR "MAINSTREAM ENTERTAINMENT" IS FUCKING SHIT

 

[kadoink]

Jesus, another day another gay op fueled by faggotry unveiled.

 

[XYZpdq]

name makes sense, world of warcraft taught us that alliance = fags

 

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The current spokesman for this MPAA front group is a male with an adopted child named Hunter, who he may or may not abuse, who is named Richard F. Vanornum or Richard F. Van Ornum. Born 23rd of April 1983. He appears to live in Los Angeles, having moved there from Boston, MA.

California voter records seem to need a lot of information to search them, so I haven't really bothered with that. Donation records do provide some more clues as to his location.

Provincetown, Maine's property assessor's owner's list shows that ACE's chief shyster Richard Vanornum and a Brett James Celedonia (born 10/13/1981) jointly own a property (101 Bayberry Ave) in that town, and their mailing address is 3456 Rowena Avenue, LA 90027. Photos of the front and rear from the property listing archived on Zillow from when they bought it are attached, note that since then an ugly hedge of undifferentiated shrubby trees has been added in front very much out of character with the neighbourhood- property is recognizable by those and the large conifer in front.