MPA Serves 5 DMCA Subpoenas to ID Online Piracy Offenders

The Motion Picture Association, on behalf of the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment, served five Digital Millennium Copyright Act subpoenas Thursday on content delivery network Cloudflare and Tonic, a national domain name registry, court records show. The subpoenas, requested through the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, order the companies to produce the identities of individuals affiliated with websites in their spheres believed to have “exploited” ACE members’ “exclusive rights in their copyrighted motion pictures without their authorization,” said a declaration (docket 2:22-mc-00197) in support of the petitions by Jan van Voorn, MPA executive vice president and chief-global content protection. ACE “is a global coalition of leading content creators and on-demand entertainment services committed to supporting the legal marketplace for video content and addressing the challenge of online piracy,” said van Voorn’s declaration. ACE members include the five major studios, plus Amazon and Netflix. Cloudflare and Tonic didn’t respond Tuesday to requests for comment.