Motion Picture Association of America

...fears among consumers that their equipment will suddenly go dark and be unusable for any purpose." These are "deplorable claims," the MPAA told the FCC on Monday. Plus they "distort the truth." They're also "simply and irrefutably...

In this article: Federal Communications Commission, DVD, Public Knowledge, Hollywood, Slingbox, Gigi Sohn, HBO, and Digital Millennium Copyright Act

..."Duck" Dunn (Booker T. & the MG's) is 68. Actor-comedian Billy Connolly is 67. Former White House news secretary Marlin Fitzwater is 67. Motion Picture Association of America Chairman and CEO Dan Glickman is 65. Singer Lee Michaels is 64.

In this article: Lookout Mountain, Rock, Apollo 12, Palestinian militant, World War II, British Overseas Airways Corp., and Booker T. & the MG's

...administration's efforts toward negotiating an intellectual property agreement with more than a dozen countries. Dan Glickman, the MPAA's chairman, informs lawmakers that millions of film-related jobs are in peril because of internet...

In this article: Hollywood, European Union, Public Knowledge, United States, Wired.com, and Digital Millennium Copyright Act

...| 5:38 pm Posted by: protagonistic | 11/20/09 | 6:34 pm Damn right I am hostile towards the MPAA and the RIAA as well. Perhaps if they would stop wasting money trying to sue everybody and use it to actually put out a product worth...

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...in the negotiations include the United States, Canada, Japan and South Korea, along with European Union members. In its letter, the MPAA said that new global rules are needed to protect films from Internet piracy. As more people...

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...guard. So, what does this slippery slope lead to? Well, people with little understanding of the MPAA and RIAA will certainly mistake them for government organisations, which is a dangerous outcome. Take the story of Coshocton, OH, a...

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Friday, 13 November 2009 A SMALL TOWN in the former British colony of Virginia is paying the price of not standing up to the MPAA. Coshocton, which is in Ohio and does not have a great tradition of standing up to authority, decided that...

In this article: MPAA, RIAA, David Cameron, Apple pie, IP Address, Peer-to-peer, Virginia, Ohio, and United Kingdom

...the Motion Picture Association of America to shut down the town's municipal Wi-Fi network. This is by no means the first time the MPAA has stepped on the little guy in their crusade to eradicate piracy, but it is a particularly...

In this article: Coshocton, Ohio, DVD, and Finland

Still use component connections with your cable box? Listen up: the MPAA has again asked the FCC to let studios disable analog connections during certain on-demand movies. The FCC currently bans this, and here's why that's a good thing.

In this article: MPAA, DVD, FCC, Customer base, Revenue, BoingBoing, PC Magazine, Observe and Report, Starz Media, and Warner Brothers

...for far too long, but fortunately, it is no longer sitting idly by as theft ravages its creative industry," the MPAA wrote. The MPAA's counterpart, the Recording Industry Association of America, is also pushing U.S.-based ISPs for a...

In this article: Federal Communications Commission, South Korea, Wired.com, Recording Industry Association of America, Great Britain, Hollywood, and Washington, D.C