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Posted by Fred C. Dobbs on 01/25/06 19:15
On 24 Jan 2006 14:56:14 -0800, "Goro" <evilninjax@yahoo.com> wrote:
>http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060124-6036.html
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>What happens when an organization that is best known for inveighing
>against the unauthorized copying of movies gets caught doing exactly
>that? The Motion Picture Association of America was caught with its
>pants down, admitting to making unauthorized copies of the documentary
>This Film Is Not Yet Rated in advance of this week's Sundance Film
>Festival.
>
>This Film Is Not Yet Rated looks at the motion picture ratings system
>created and run by the MPAA. Director Kirby Dick submitted the film for
>rating in November. After receiving the movie, the MPAA subsequently
>made copies without Dick's permission. Dick had specifically requested
>in an e-mail that the MPAA not make copies of the movie. The MPAA
>responded by saying that "the confidentiality of your film is our first
>priority."
>
>Dick later learned that the MPAA made copies of the film to distribute
>them to its employees, despite the MPAA's stance on unauthorized
>copying. Ah, there's nothing like the smell of hypocrisy in the
>morning-apparently the prohibition against copying films without the
>copyright owner's consent doesn't apply to the MPAA. A lawyer for the
>MPAA justified the organization's apparent hypocrisy by saying that
>Dick had invaded the privacy of some MPAA staffers, which justified the
>MPAA's actions.
>
>....
>
>Oh, how beautiful...
>
>-goro-
So what the lawyer is saying is Two Wrongs Make a Right?
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