What's with everybody and trying to protect their copyrights? On the heels of RedLasso caving to NBC and Fox's infringement lawsuit comes word two other major cases are making their way to the courts. The first involves the MPAA, a literally a four-letter word for movie pirates, which wants the websites FOMDB.com and MovieRumor.com shut down for persistently posting information on how to download movies illegally. The second involves litigation magnet YouTube, which is being sued by Italy's prime minister.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi owns the TV company Mediaset SpA, which, in a Rome court, asked for "at least" 500 million euros (that's $779 million in U.S. coinage) for YouTube's hosting of 4,643 videos, or more than 325 hours, of their programming; "Mediaset claims that, based on the number of its clips available on YouTube and the hits generated, the broadcaster lost the equivalent of 315,672 broadcasting days."

The amount Mediaset is looking for is, of course, less than the $1 billion lawsuit Viacom launched against YouTube's owner, Google. That fun little courtroom drama, launched last March, is still making its way through the courts.