p2pnet.net News:- Ex-movie industry boss Jack Valenti says Dan Glickman, the Man to be King, “will be a powerful, successful steward of the MPAA”.

Hopefully, he’ll be a little more au fait with the areas he’s stewarding than Valenti.

By way of example, Keith Winstein, The Tech’s senior editor, did a great interview with Valenti where the latter displayed his ignorance. In spades with cherries on top, not to mix metaphors.

We’ll soon see. But in the meanwhile, the burning question is: will Glickman travel the same twisted path as his predecessor?

Affrimative, it would seem.

From his comments so far, Glickman comes across as a Valenti clone - albeit funnier.

“Valenti said he told Glickman that guarding against piracy and safeguarding the movie studios intellectual property would be his ‘prime priority’ at the organization, says the Washington Post here.

Thus, “Privacy and protecting the intellectual property of creative works has got to be the number one issue,” echoed Glickman, who also said he still needs to, “educate himself about a handful of piracy-related measures the MPAA has been lobbying in Congress,” but that he supports them.

“Glickman said it wasn’t enough to focus solely on lobbying for stiffer penalties for online pirates, saying that the industry also should concentrate on education and exploring new business models to get movies out to consumers in more ways than they’re currently available - views that are in line with Valenti’s past statements on Internet piracy,” adds the Post.

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