Film Industry Says It Will Sue Suspected Online Movie Swappers This Month

The film industry says it is taking a page out of the record companies' playbook and suing people it suspects of trading movies illegally online.

Movie studios announced that they would fire off their first round of lawsuits against users of peer-to-peer file-trading networks on November 16, said Dan Glickman, new president of the Motion Picture Association of America, at a news conference at the University of California at Los Angeles last week. He and two other movie-industry

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