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This move follows the recent decision by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) to start suing users of pirated online movies as the music industry has already done. But this new law focuses on the source of the counterfeit movie rather than the end user...
...were actually very happy that Romney signed this bill,” Dan Glickman, president and CEO of the MPAA, wrote in an e-mail. “In some cases, the quality of DVDs from camcorders is virtually indistinguishable from the real thing...This bill will certainly be of help to the industry...
Romney spokesman Felix Browne wrote in the press release that although film piracy is not a large problem in the state, the legislation is necessary to prevent the “increasing problems” from it, which the MPAA estimates cost the entertainment industry $3.5 billion a year...
...have gone hand-in-hand with the boom of technology. Failure to address this challenge could take away the magic and the mystery of movies. And that’s something none of us want to see happen, which is why I am committed to making sure that the MPAA is helping to lead the charge to get us to this future...
...just a bit further on in the paper, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)—now led by former Institute of Politics Director Dan Glickman—had taken out a full page ad displaying, under the ominous question “Is this you?,” a long list of the Internet addresses of peer-to-peer filesharing users who had been caught infringing on motion picture copyrights. “If you think you can get away with illegally trafficking movies, think again,” the ad cleverly challenged: “Lawsuits...