JohnQPublic
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|  [News] MPAA: Antipiracy is now 'content protection'
Looks like there is going to be a new buzzword coming from the fine folks over at the MPAA from here on out. And it looks like a handful of uppity ups will be updating their resume and shopping for employment. This is just a heads up to familiarize yourself -- and your tongue -- with the change in terminology. This sounds like a definite game changer. Not.
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LOS ANGELES--The six largest Hollywood film studios are apparently dissatisfied with the way their trade group has waged war on illegal file sharing. CNET News has learned that at least three leaders of its antipiracy operations have been fired.
Among the three who were quietly ushered out of their posts at the Motion Picture Association of America three weeks ago was Greg Goeckner, the MPAA's general counsel. The others were the MPAA's director of worldwide antipiracy operations and its deputy director of Internet antipiracy. Goeckner will remain with the MPAA until the end of the year.
Other MPAA staffers were let go as part of a dramatic restructuring of the piracy-fighting operations, which included dropping the word "antipiracy" in favor of the term "content protection."
More here:
»news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-10376···ksArea.0
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CCat
Purrplexity
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Wonderland | Golly...I'm real sorry to hear that. |
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Bolt Backer
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clubs:  | reply to JohnQPublic
Maybe they can find some work in the Obama administration. |
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| said by Bolt Backer  :Maybe they can find some work in the Obama administration. But Fox News pays so much better! And these 3 MPAA execs have so much experience in the advanced propaganda tactics that working anyhwere else would just be a waste of their talent. |
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crese24
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I would like to ask these people why suddenly after years of not caring about digital goods/downloads do they suddenly care so much about it now? Why don't they use all that money they have and offer up some legal/legit ways to download movies, games, and music? Would they then price these digital goods lower than what you buy at a store? It would be nice to know, what there true intentions are here. |
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Harddrive
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Content protection. Well, now, let me see. You know, I don't have any idea what that means ... I know what you think it means, sonny. To me, it's just a made-up word. A politician's word, sonny. Young fellas like yourself can wear a suit and a tie and have a job. What do you really want to know? Am I sorry for what I did? ... There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not because I'm in here. Because you think I should. I look back on the way I was then. A young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. I wanna talk to him. I wanna try to talk some sense to him. Tell him the way things are. But I can't. That kid's long gone and this old man's all that's left. I gotta live with that. Content protection? That's just a bullshit word. So you go on and stamp your form, sonny, and stop wasting my time. Because, to tell you the truth, I don't give a shit.
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