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The MPAA Pirates a Movie

submitted by Zifnab

1 decade 6 years 10 months 1 week ago

From Kirby Dick's 2006 documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated.

Wikipedia info:
On January 24, 2006, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) admitted to making duplicates of a digital copy of the film that was provided to them for the purpose of obtaining an MPAA rating. According to the film's director, Kirby Dick, he sought assurances that no copies would be made or distributed for any other purpose.

The MPAA admitted to making copies of the film contrary to Dick's wishes although they contend that doing so did not constitute copyright infringement or a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). They say that the privacy of the raters themselves might have been violated by Dick. Since no complaint has been filed against Dick and since the DMCA addresses the act of subverting access control and not copying, it is unclear whether the MPAA's justification is sound.[citation needed]

Dick's lawyer, Michael Donaldson, has requested that the MPAA destroy all copies of the film in their possession and notify him of who has seen the film and received copies.

The DVD version of the film contains deleted scenes that showed both phone calls where Kirby Dick was assured that no copy would be made, and the last one where he found out that a copy had indeed been created.

10 Comments

hmm, now ain't that somethin!

related cartoon i saw recently, http://xkcd.com/c14.html

This entire film just pissed me off. At the MPAA, not Kirby Dick. You could say that, yes, everything in the movie is of a certain... iberl-aye... persuasion... so... FUCK YOU! They're censoring OUR culture, CENSORING what our society and race are exposed to on one of the largest scales in history!

The MPAA serves the same purpose as a newspaper editor, making sure that content is 'appropriate' for it's audience, whatever the context detirmines 'appropriate' to mean. The difference is, that when one newspaper only delivers hateful or what you may see as ignorant news, we all have the option of reading something else. The MPAA tries to govern all cinema, everywhere it can. Imagine if any one newspaper in America were given the power to edit every other in the world. That's why the MPAA should end.

*scum

ren

fuck you mpaa

I just had an epiphany! The MPAA is what starts wars! quick spread the rumor, log it on Wikipedia!

ever notice how the MPAA spelt backwards is FUCKFACEDTURDS?

bamdrew, that comic is awesome.

somegeek says...

/owned

Bravo. :-)

fuck you arasaka!

*politics

Adding video to channels (Politics) - requested by looris.

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