Movie pirates can no longer use the darkness of movie houses as cover, top honchos of the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) and Optical Media Board (OMB) vowed.
It is work as usual for Optical Media Board (OMB) chair Ronnie Ricketts this holiday season.
Optical Media Board (OMB) chair Ronnie Ricketts said he regretted but understood actor Cesar Montano’s decision to decline a Malacañang appointment as an OMB official. Montano was to replace violinist John Lesaca as a board member in the antipiracy group. Lesaca’s term expired when he ran for Quezon City councilor in 2010. “Cesar’s concern was [...]
The crackdown on piracy benefits not only movie producers but also singers and record labels, according to Optical Media Board (OMB) chairman Ronnie Ricketts.
Optical Media Board (OMB) Chair Ronnie Ricketts spent Christmas Day monitoring the 37th Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) opening and clamping down on movie pirates. Working closely with the Motion Picture for Anti-Film Piracy Council (MPAFPC), Ricketts said his team arrested a man for attempting to record the festival entry “Enteng ng Ina Mo” at [...]
Jennylyn Mercado refutes the story that she and her ex, Dennis Trillo, avoided each other during Janno Gibbs’ concert last Saturday. “Nauna talaga ang number ko sa kanya,” she clarifies. “At umalis ako agad pagkatapos kong mag perform. Nagkita na [rin] kami ni Dennis sa Party Pilipinas pero di kami nagpansinan.” Luis Manzano was supposed [...]
Ronnie Ricketts has agreed to direct and appear in an action movie with Viva Films – on condition that he would only shoot on weekends so as not to hamper his job as chairman of the Optical Media Board. He has so far turned down offers to appear in shows on the three major networks [...]
Actor Ronnie Ricketts’ job as chair of the Optical Media Board (OMB) left him with no choice but to turn down two TV projects—the 2010 fantasy-adventure series “Panday” on GMA 7 and the ongoing teleserye “Mula Sa Puso” on ABS-CBN. “Working on these shows would eat up my time,” said Ricketts, OMB chair since 2009. [...]
MANILA, Philippines – The battle of the Optical Media Board (OMB) against local computer software pirates in on. With its support on the Pilipinas Anti-Piracy Team (PAPT), OMB on Friday threatened local companies which recently refused the on-the-spot inspection of the regulatory board with legal sanctions if they failed to prove that they were using [...]
