Sooner_Bob
1/25/2006, 09:32 PM
Heh . . . (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060124-6036.html)
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 (http://www.latimes.com/business/custom/cotown/cl-et-mpaa24jan24,0,2188275.story) of the documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated in advance of this week's Sundance Film Festival.
It's difficult to see how This Film Is Not Yet Rated—which ended up with an NC-17 rating for graphic sexual content—is being harmed. If nothing else, Dick is reaping a bountiful crop of free publicity on the eve of the Sundance Film Festival. The MPAA's decision to make copies of the film without the copyright-holder's permission reinforces the documentary's message that the MPAA's actions often reek of self-interest and hypocrisy.
So this means the normal end-user can just claim "I didn't copy the DVD for financial gain" and the MPAA can't prosecute them, right? :mack:
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 (http://www.latimes.com/business/custom/cotown/cl-et-mpaa24jan24,0,2188275.story) of the documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated in advance of this week's Sundance Film Festival.
It's difficult to see how This Film Is Not Yet Rated—which ended up with an NC-17 rating for graphic sexual content—is being harmed. If nothing else, Dick is reaping a bountiful crop of free publicity on the eve of the Sundance Film Festival. The MPAA's decision to make copies of the film without the copyright-holder's permission reinforces the documentary's message that the MPAA's actions often reek of self-interest and hypocrisy.
So this means the normal end-user can just claim "I didn't copy the DVD for financial gain" and the MPAA can't prosecute them, right? :mack: