36 posts and columns on MPAA
Rupert Murdoch Makes Peace with “Pirate” Google, Starts Selling Movies
Turns out the search giant isn’t so awful, after all. And 20th Century Fox has a lot of digital movies and TV shows it wants to sell, starting with “Prometheus.”The Piracy “Problem”
If every TV show was offered at a fair price to everyone in the world, there would definitely be much less copyright infringement. But because of the monopoly power of the cable companies and content creators, they might actually make less money.
— Holmes Wilson, co-director of Fight for the Future
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
Anonymous Fails, Once Again, to Make Its Point
Big as they were, the attacks carried out in revenge for the Megaupload arrests accomplished nothing significant.The Full Valenti: Dodd Trades His Olive Branch to Tech for a Howitzer, After SOPA/PIPA Gets Delayed
What would Jack do? (And would it work anymore?)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
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Tips for Mark Zuckerberg to Sleep Better at Night
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.)Voices