The MPAA needs to be abolished and replaced with something government controlled with oversight. Sound's like a fucking Underworld Mob the way it's run now.

I remember them relating a story with how they got around the MPAA when making Team America: World Police by beating them at their own game. They knew the MPAA would scoff at their puppet sex scene, so their originally submitted cut had the much more graphic sex scene (which incidentally is now the Director's cut). That way, when the MPAA rejected it with an NC-17 rating, they could cut it back to what they originally wanted and re-submit. Sure enough, they got their R rating.

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Just so we're clear on this: THE CANADIAN BROADCAST STANDARDS COUNCIL IS NOT A GOVERNMENT AGENCY!!! It is an industry-run watchdog organization, much like the MPAA in the US, and they're just as full of shit as the MPAA.

I remember reading how Paul Verhoeven wanted to have an erect penis in Basic Instinct but this was one of the MPAAs big no-nos. This was also mentioned in the IFC documentary Indie Sex by other directors facing the same problems.

It's probably a dildo

What happened to the elevator pictures?

"REPORTER: Can you talk about the montage of pictures at the end of this film? The blowjob. Apparently the MPAA didn’t watch the closing credits.

COOPER: Is that against the rules? Really? It’s a dildo though.

GALIFIANAKIS: But that woman was seventy seven years old. I think there’s an age where it becomes non-sexual.

REPORTER: Was that a prosthetic?

GALIFIANAKIS: I don’t remember. I have to look at again to see what the size was. We were just talking about it. It didn’t match my skin color. It looks like a piece of taffy. I would never."

Source: Link

lol, "I don't remember" - yeah right.

I don't really mind that much if google knows everyone and owns everything.
As long as it's given out free, and they have no power over them.
But being in US, the government can just poke their heads into their databases when they feel like it.
What happens if a properly evil corporation wants some of that information for their actually nasty purposes through a ploy of law or lobby?
You know, like has already happened with RIAA and MPAA bullying isps and other services for customer data to sue the entire world's youth for negligible losses.
If google would guarantee the data would stay in their database, unretrievable to an external party, i wouldn't mind.. but as is, i won't put anything online i wouldn't mind my mom/neighbor/boss/wife finding out.

think of it this way... open wireless access is akin to letting random people borrow your car.

you don't know what they're going to use it for. they could be robbing a bank, carting dead hookers to the field, drug deals, going through your stuff, whatever... you're basically trusting that the people that use the car are going to do so for good purposes. picking up their kids from school, grocery shopping, running a quick errand, etc.
wifi is kind of the same in the fact that people could be using it to steal movies/music, access nefarious pictures/information, e-stalking, hacking into email/banking accounts, or they could be using it for banking, amazon, videosift, wikipedia... who knows. sure there's logs, but if you know how to access the logs, then you know how to protect yourself and probably aren't concerned with this anyway.

the point is you never know who could be doing what on your open, unprotected access point. if you're willing to fend off the MPAA/RIAA, CEOP, or even perhaps the local police/FBI then by all means, leave your access point wide open. WARdrivers will document your WAP and pirates/hackers/child-exploiters will love you for it.

read the instruction booklet that came with your router. 99% of the time the very first set of instructions after setting the thing up is how to change your admin password and enable encryption. Those instructions are there for a good reason.

I hate the MPAA. They are worse censors than the Chinese government.

wow...there's this douche there called "Ricky-Oh" on this site.

Here's some of his comments:
And so it begins. This time it's not the evil old RIAA or MPAA, it's an organization that actually makes sure content creators get paid. I love this. Soon, everyone will have to pay for every bit of content they consume. Finally.
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Yes, more money does need to leave people's pockets. Your Internet and Cable providers are that and only that. Providers of bandwidth, not content. You don't HAVE to pay for those things, you could camp out in Starbuck's and steal the WiFi, or watch only broadcast TV. But you don't, you consume content that comes down a pipeline you also pay for. The content itself is a separate matter, and yes, you should pay for every last iota of it you consume. All of it. Every bit. Separate from the pipeline it's delivered in, it's commercial content and you need to pay for it. If you don't want to pay for it or can't afford to pay for it, then don't consume it. Where people got the idea this stuff should be free is completely beyond me.

>> ^sallyjune:
MPAA,RIAA,ASCAP, chumps with lawyers and swimming pools full of
pussy,cock,adolescents,infants,toddlers,livestock, etc.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090519/1127454934.shtml
"It floats through wires, in the atmosphere, and over continents motherfuckers, deal with it!"


Hi Choggie.

Whenever I read a book, I skip the acknowledgements section, because a long list of names is pointless and boring unless your name is in the list.

Opening credits are annoying verbal diarrhea unless constructed in a novel way.

Put the credits at the end because almost no one cares enough to stay and watch the credits unless their name is in the list.

>> ^EDD:
>> ^spoco2:
^ No, that's how you justify why you download movies... you really do it because it's free.
Tell me if there was a DVD/BluRay of the movie and a downloaded version, both for free, you wouldn't take the DVD/BluRay.

Hey, I used to download ripped Blu-Ray (at ~25gigs it only took me couple of hours - my foreign upload/download used to be 100/100 Mbps).
shh, don't tell the MPAA though


Where did you live? Hong Kong?

>> ^EDD:
>> ^spoco2:
^ No, that's how you justify why you download movies... you really do it because it's free.
Tell me if there was a DVD/BluRay of the movie and a downloaded version, both for free, you wouldn't take the DVD/BluRay.

Hey, I used to download ripped Blu-Ray (at ~25gigs it only took me couple of hours - my foreign upload/download used to be 100/100 Mbps).
shh, don't tell the MPAA though


That makes me cry... my entire data allowance per month is 20Gig... INCLUDING UPLOADS! I wouldn't get half way through that before I was speed limited... *weep*

Ahh, the joy of living in Australia... and being on a fairly crap plan, just as well it's up in a couple of months... time for me to shop around... oooh yeah.

MPAA,RIAA,ASCAP, chumps with lawyers and swimming pools full of
pussy,cock,adolescents,infants,toddlers,livestock, etc.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090519/1127454934.shtml

"It floats through wires, in the atmosphere, and over continents motherfuckers, deal with it!"

>> ^spoco2:
^ No, that's how you justify why you download movies... you really do it because it's free.
Tell me if there was a DVD/BluRay of the movie and a downloaded version, both for free, you wouldn't take the DVD/BluRay.


Hey, I used to download ripped Blu-Ray (at ~25gigs it only took me couple of hours - my foreign upload/download used to be 100/100 Mbps).

shh, don't tell the MPAA though