The ‘face of copyright enforcement’
p2pnet news | MPAA News:- Dean Garfield is a consiglieri – or is it button man? – in the Hollywood enforcement outfit known as the MPAA, short for (Motion Picture Association of America).
In a CNET spinterview, “Jack Valenti compared the Betamax to the Boston Strangler. Critics of the MPAA say his statement was an example of Hollywood’s paranoia of technology,” says Greg Sandoval, going on:
“Are you guys paranoid?” Responds Garfield:
I wouldn’t say that at all. The thing to keep in mind is that the development of the DVD and turning the Betamax recorder into a viable piece of technology was something done by our industry. We were behind much of the development behind DVDs.
What the studios do is tell stories, but the way they tell those stories is through the use of technology. We embrace technology and use it to tell our stories more effectively.
If you look at the list of movies that have broken new ground, from Star Wars to Polar Express, nobody would look at those movies and suggest that our industry is afraid of technology. The truth is quite the opposite.
heh
Earlier, “He’s charged with finding ways to limit the bootlegging of feature films and, as he says, help the film industry not end up like the music industry,” says the Q&A, adding:
“He knows all about the music industry’s mostly losing battle against piracy. Prior to joining the MPAA, Garfield was vice president of legal affairs for the Recording Industry Association of America, where he helped manage the court cases against Grokster, Kazaa and MusicCity.
“This kind of experience, working for both the music and film industries, has turned Garfield into the face of copyright enforcement.”
He is indeed ideal for the job. But then, so he should be trained, as he was, by Organised Music’s RIAA.
Garfield was one of the people behind the infamous raid on a major Swedish ISP when evidence was planted so gullible Swedish cops could find it.
He also tried to bribe someone with $15,000 to unearth confidential data in a case the MPAA was trying to hang on TorrentSpy.
The quote would more properly read, “the farce of copyright enforcement”.
Also See:
CNET – Newsmaker: Hollywood’s copyright enforcer, August 27, 2007
infamous raid – Swedish anti-p2p site hacked: more, March 15, 2005
tried to bribe – Overturn TorrentSpy ruling: EFF, CDT, June 25, 2007
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August 28th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
“I wouldn’t say that at all. The thing to keep in mind is that the development of the DVD and turning the Betamax recorder into a viable iece of technology was something done by our industry. We were behind much of the development behind DVDs.”
- yes after you realised you couldn’t kill them off. It also helped hat you stood to make a killing reselling movies to people in a different format.
“What the studios do is tell stories, but the way they tell those stories is through the use of technology. We embrace technology and use it to tell our stories more effectively.”
-I’ve read your press releases and studies, you’re right you do sell stories. And you do try to kill technology, or at least to control it so it only does what you want it to.
“If you look at the list of movies that have broken new ground, from Star Wars to Polar Express, nobody would look at those movies and suggest that our industry is afraid of technology. The truth is quite the opposite.”
- not every one in your industry is.
August 28th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
The picture is worth 1,000 words
August 29th, 2007 at 12:30 am
Oh they DO tell some tall stories…like the good one about how pirated material is killing their industry, when in fact they make RECORD PROFITS!
Now that is pure fiction all the way!