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Hollywood Loves Sequels: MPAA To Push SOPA Follow-up In 2013
boygeniusreport.com 5 days, 11 hours agoThe first version was hardly a hit, but Hollywood is already planning a sequel to the Stop Online Piracy Act that it will push in 2013, reports claim. Comments made by Motion Picture Association of America chief executive Chris Dodd suggest that the MPAA will work to get a new anti-piracy billed passed next year, and it plans to take a more cunning approach. ”We’re going to have to be more subtle and consumer-oriented,” Dodd said of the new legislation that the MPAA will push, according to Variety . “We’re
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Chris Dodd Says MPAA Is On The Wrong Track; We Agree
techdirt.com 6 days, 12 hours agoOver at the Cannes Film Festival, MPAA boss Chris Dodd apparently told Variety that the MPAA is "on the wrong track" when it calls infringement "theft." "We're in a transformative period with an explosion of technology that's going to need content... We're going to have to be more subtle and consumer-oriented We're on the wrong track if we describe this as thievery." Now, I thought that was kind of interesting, because it appears that the folks who work for Dodd haven't received the memo. The MPAA website i
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