The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is the trade association that represents the interests of the major Hollywood film studios. Its members are: Buena Vista Pictures Distribution (The Walt Disney Company); Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.; Paramount Pictures Corporation; Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation; Universal City Studios LLLP; and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

The MPAA and its counterpart in the music industry, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), have recently taken a number of steps to enforce their rights to the intellectual property produced by their members. The MPAA is a party in MGM v. Grokster, a case recently argued before the U.S. Supreme Court designed to shut down the use of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks for the purpose of illegal file swapping.

The MPAA has also recently brought lawsuits against large numbers of individual alleged illegal file-swappers using the superfast Internet2 university-based network.

Kori Bernards, Vice President, Corporate Communications at the MPAA, spoke today with Entertainment Technology World about their "efforts to crack down on piracy worldwide."

You can listen to Kori Bernards' comments about the MPAA's efforts to end illegal file-swapping of movies by clicking here.

To access an interview with Adam Eisgrau, Executive Director, P2P United, on these same subjects but from a different point of view, click here.