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April 29, 2005

Forget drugs. Now the Godfather steals movies

You'd expect the motion picture industry to be able to come up with a scary plot when they're trying to protect the mother lode, and sure enough, they had a beauty to justify the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act, which will make people think twice about putting a movie or piece of music online.

According to the president of the Motion Picture Association of America, Dan Glickman: "There is evidence that criminal gangs use this kind of theft to support and expand their criminal enterprises."

In the same breath he confided that 90% of pirated films were "stolen" by people filming the shows in a cinema with a smuggled handycam. Can you imagine a Mafia godfather sneaking into a movie show, then pulling out his home movie camera and turning it into a cheap DVD that would sell for a couple of dollars a pop?

And can someone please explain to us how putting a movie on the Internet would bring in any money at all? It's all free. That's the point of it.

Forget the logic, however. George Dubya has signed it into legislation, meaning anyone who dares to upload a movie or copyrighted song will now face up to three years in jail.

Posted by cw at April 29, 2005 02:44 PM

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