by Anthony D'Alessandro — 9 April 2024
MPA Chairman and CEO Charles Rivkin used his CinemaCon speech to announce the MPA’s plans to push for site blocking legislation in the US.
He said that site blocking is a common tool in 60 countries used to reduce traffic on pirate sites via targeted disruption and explained that “it is a powerful tool to defend what our filmmakers create and what reaches your theatres.”
Rivkin gave an example of how site blocking works as it stifled FMovies, a piracy site that clocks over 160 million visits per month. Other nations passed site blocking legislation, slowing traffic to FMovies, but “a third of that traffic still comes from the United States.”
Rivkin concluded by calling on theatre owners to support the work of the MPA in Washington.
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Find Charles Rivkin’s full state of the industry address here.