MPAA goes to China
p2pnet.net News:- MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) mouthpiece Dan Glickman is off to China ostensibly to attend the Fortune Global Forum in Beijing which starts on May 16, 2005.
His real purpose, however, is to impress upon “PRC Government officials, business leaders and film industry officials in both Beijing and in Shanghai” the importance of rigorously toeing the line drawn by his bosses, the major movie studios.
Glickman will also speak to film students at Shanghai Jiaotong University in Shanghai.
Will he also be bearing a list of students the studios allege have been sharing movies?
He recently “expressed concern” to America’s Princeton University “about, illegal movie downloading” on the university network and provided, “a list of 66 IP addresses associated with alleged acts of infringement”.
“My message to the Chinese people and their government will be simple,” he says. “Protecting intellectual property and stopping black-market piracy serves the long-term interests of the Chinese people and of the world at large.”
The MPAA doesn’t say if Glickman also be leaning on PRC scouting associations to follow Hong Kong’s lead in introducing ‘copyright’ merit badges.
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See:-
illegal movie downloading – Hollywood vs US students, p2pnet, May 10, 2005
‘copyright’ merit badges – Scouting with the MPAA: IV, p2pnet, May 5, 2004
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May 13th, 2005 at 8:08 am
Why haven’t these people been assasinated yet?
Seriously.
May 13th, 2005 at 2:29 pm
S.C.O. is no longer a software company, it is now a litigation company.
The R.I.A.A. is doing the same. Not only are they suing stores, they also have taken to sueing resellers. Nice people, yes?
http://www.local6.com/news/4482357/detail.html
May 13th, 2005 at 2:34 pm
I like the part where the R.I.A.A. states that stores operating legally should not have to compete with pirates. It seems that the Republican-Democrat party supportes of this idea should use the same though processes when they allow American companies to move overseas to take advantage of slave labor. Our Democrat-Republican polititions are such hyprocrits.