Tuesday 11 October 2011

Attention Aussie ISPs: who's laying bets on how long the Movie Rights Group will survive?


I’m laying bets ;-) as to how long the Australian company Movie Rights Group manages to stay afloat and keep its legal attack dog onside, as it endeavours to get hard cash from people it alleges breached copyright and illegally downloaded movies 'owned' by Lightening Entertainment, a Santa Monica-based sales and distribution company.

For heaven's sake, The Movie Rights Group's spokesman doesn't even appear to realise that Lightening Entertainment doesn't actually hold the film copyright of Kill the Irishman.

This is what is known so far…………….

ABC News on the 5th October 2011 ran this interesting information:

The Age coloured the picture in further on the 8th October 2011:

The Movie Rights Group had this to say on its website as of 10th October 2011:

Here is an excerpt from Gordon Walker’s Linked in brag page viewed on the 10th October 2011:

Gordon Walker's Experience

VP Sales and Marketing
Movie Rights Group LLC
Internet industry
2010 – Present (1 year)

Founder and CEO
Munro Medical Pty Ltd
Medical Devices industry
October 1997 – March 2002 (4 years 6 months) Queensland, Australia
Imported, sold and leased Hospital Grade infant respiration monitors for "SIDS at risk babies" to hospitals, public health services, local area health services and individuals throughout Australia and New Zealand.

Founder and CEO
Munro & Kay Pty Ltd
Real Estate industry
February 1987 – March 2002 (15 years 2 months) Queensland, Australia
Company formed to build and renovate residential properties on the northern end of the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

Gordon Walker's Education

Royal Australian Air Force OTS
Advanced Diploma Aviation, Air Traffic Control
1975 – 1980
Australian Joint Anti Submarine School
Anti Submarine Warfare
Australian Joint Warfare Establishment
Joint Operations
Department of Transport (ATG)
Civilian Air Traffic Control course
RAAF School of Air Traffic Control
Air Traffic Control

Gordon Walker's Additional Information
Websites:
Groups and Associations:
Leukaemia Foundation, Surf Life Saving Australia, Guide Dogs, SIDS for Kids
Honors and Awards:
Air Force Commendation

So does any of the above information lay to rest the voiced suspicion that Movie Rights Group's positioning could be part of a "US extortion scam" or the possibility that Movie Rights Group may not have a very long business life?

Well the only people associated with the company who've gone public are:
1.  Gordon Walker who claims to have founded Munro Medical Pty Ltd a current corporation with a registered address at Murwillumbah as well as being listed as having premises in Ballina on the NSW North Coast (although the deregistered company which most matched his published timeline above is here) and, Munro & Kay Pty Ltd a defunct Queensland company which commenced sometime between 1987 & 1991 and applied for deregistration in 1992, but if the Linked in entry is correct continued to trade until 2002.
2. Matthew Wade Clapham and Richard Dean Clapman who were directors of a New Zealand company, Ram Productions Limited which came into being in 1999 and was deregistered in 2006 according to the NZ Register of Companies.
Matthew appears to have been a shareholder in another New Zealand company, C.M.R. Productions Limited – which unsurprisingly was deregistered in 2005 five years after it was born.

UPDATE:

Internet Media Productions is a 10 year-old Queensland company which was deregistered in August 2011.
WebTrafficAgents.com lists this company and Matthew Clapman as the registrants for pornconductor.com.
Whois also records the company and Matthew as registrants for throatsex.com.
While WooRank still lists the company and Matthew as registrants for seductivepornmovies.com.
Though I think he may have sold on or anonymised two of those sites by now.

FURTHER UPDATE:

MSM finally catches up with the p0rn angle and finds more websites - as well as publishing photos of the Clapham brothers.
*http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/playing-dirty-20111017-1ltam.html
*http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/porn-link-tipped-in-net-piracy-case-20111017-1ltex.html
Bet those boys are starting to feel sorry they ever approached Extel!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

The Movie Rights Group syas this about directors corporate history on its website:
The Directors of Movie Rights Group have been operating successfully within the online industry for over 15 years and are well known and respected by many major Studios and Content Producers.
They’ve been involved in and have intimate knowledge of every facet of the industry, from content production and DVD creation, to billing, sales and marketing.
Together with their experienced and knowledgeable technicians, lawyers and other web experts, they have created the most formidable copyright enforcement team online today.
It's this rare combination that ensures the best possible outcomes for their clients, day in, day out.

ROFL

Anonymous said...

Ho, ho ho! Wayback Machine has nailed the Movie Rights Group.
This company first targeted the U.S. in 2010 or earlier and was contactable at: info@movierightsgroup.com
2207 CONCORD PIKE,
WILMINGTON, DE 19803-2908 - USA
Fax: +1 (213) 652-0473

http://web.archive.org/web/20101112010549/http://www.movierightsgroup.com/contacts.php
And they were using the threat of US District Court litigation.
http://web.archive.org/web/20101112010559/http://www.movierightsgroup.com/settlement.html
But what i like best is that this company was saying:
The Directors of Movie Rights Group have been operating very successfully within the online adult industry for over 15 years and are well known and respected by many major DVD Studios and Content Producers.
http://web.archive.org/web/20101105103029/http://www.movierightsgroup.com/about.html
The mind boggles!

Anonymous said...

WHOIS Server 3.1
http://whois.domaintools.com/moviesettlements.com

Domain Name.........: moviesettlements.com
Creation Date.......: 2011-06-20 00:00:00
Expiration Date.....: 2013-06-20 00:00:00

Registrant Details..:
Registrant Name.....: Matthew Clapham
First Name..........: Matthew
Last Name...........: Clapham
Address Line 1......: Suite 283 15 Albert Ave
Address Line 2......: Broadbeach
City................: Gold Coast
State...............: QLD
Country.............: AU
Post Code...........: 4218
Phone...............: (+61) 422132100
Fax.................: (+)
Email Address.......:

Admin Contact Details:
First Name..........: Matthew
Last Name...........: Clapham
Address Line 1......: Suite 283 15 Albert Ave
Address Line 2......: Broadbeach
City................: Gold Coast
State...............: QLD
Country.............: AU
Post Code...........: 4218
Phone...............: (+61) 422422422
Fax.................: (+)
Email Address.......:

Technical Contact Details:
First Name..........: Matthew
Last Name...........: Clapham
Address Line 1......: Suite 283 15 Albert Ave
Address Line 2......: Broadbeach
City................: Gold Coast
State...............: QLD
Country.............: AU
Post Code...........: 4218
Phone...............: (+61) 422422422
Fax.................: (+)
Email...............:

Anonymous said...

These wankers are bottom feeder low lifes.

Check out what is being said over at www.whirlpool.net.au and you will see what I mean, and the others here.

BTW, the last whois should be attributed to Devin from whirlpool, and there is another there by someone else recently.

Cheers