used to be able to program ...brain injury....oh come on, I know you're all thinking it

Company directors are Richard and Matthew Clapham, both live on the gold coast....if you're interested, the ASIC registry has their home addresses (I won't post for privacy reasons), Movie Rights Group Pty Ltd is a home business at Richards address, interestingly, the houses sold a couple of month ago for $1.1M so there's an online tour - reaaaaaly nice house :) (tisk tisk, didn't update ASIC records)

I can't find anything on them online, so I don't know what they mean by "15 years in IT"

Oh, and their website has only a fax number, and their address is actually the Broadbeach "Mail Boxes Etc Business Center" - i.e. it's a post box

Seems there's really not much information on this "Movie Rights Group" - a website with an anonymous host with minimal functionality and some buttons not working (and according to wayback, barely touched since created last year), a spokesman who's linkedin profile jumps from "Australian Air Force - 1980" directly to "VP Sales & Marketing Movie Rights Group - 2010", a head office in a suite off broadwater on the gold coast (not exactly the bustling commercial hub of Australia!).

Interestingly, the original website has this wonderful snippet (god I love wayback)

"If, however, you decide not to settle and wish your matter to be heard in Court, we strongly suggest you engage a lawyer as soon as possible. Be aware that you may be exposing yourself to civil damages of up to USD$150,000 plus costs, per infringement."

However I guess when this story broke they thought it would be safer to change it to

"If, however, you decide not to settle and wish your matter to be heard in Court, we strongly suggest you engage a lawyer as soon as possible."

I guess my internet investigation skills are not l33t enough to find much real information on the company :)

It would be interesting to know if this is a proactive launch by the MPAA into Australia, or is this just some guy who saw what was going on in America, set up a website, flew over there and shopped around until he got a client who thought "why not, this guy wants to take the risk, we know nothing of Australia" - he's not even a law firm as far as I can tell (he's using a Brisbane one).....the website claims "the directors" have been working in IT for over 15 years, anyone from Brisbane/Gold Coast worked with this guy or know the directors?