8 posts and columns on Chris Dodd

Automobiles, Software, and Us

We cannot draw up a business model that accounts for the wholesale theft of our product. It’s true for pharmacies. It’s true for the automobile industry. It’s true for software developers. And it’s true for us.

– MPAA chair Chris Dodd, speaking at the Atlanta Press Club on Wednesday

The Full Valenti: Dodd Trades His Olive Branch to Tech for a Howitzer, After SOPA/PIPA Gets Delayed

in Media on January 20, 2012 at 11:32 am PT

What would Jack do? (And would it work anymore?)
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Content is President

Simply put, it doesn’t matter how great a piece of technology you have invented, or how innovative a distribution platform you have created. You must have content.

– Former senator and current MPAA president Chris Dodd, in a speech Tuesday in which he stressed that Hollywood and Silicon Valley are in the content (and content protection) business together

Understanding Your Phone Bill: Telecom Immunity Charge

in News on June 25, 2008 at 5:08 am PT

Sen. Chris Dodd’s threats of a filibuster forced the Senate to reconsider the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act once before. Sadly, they didn’t get it rewritten, which is why the Connecticut Democrat is now threatening to filibuster it again.