Posted on Saturday 10 September 2011
Hollywood is struggling to transition from the past to the present, to a time when the Internet was but a sci-fi wet dream to a time when it’s integral to our everyday lives. And the MPAA is struggling to tell the truth.
MPAA, Hollywood, Piracy
The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) is a non-profit organization designed to “advance the business interests of its members,” which is basically the big Hollywood movie studios such as Universal, Warner Bros., Paramount, and Walt Disney.
But its job over the past few years has been more about (mis)educating the public about piracy, how evil the Internet is, and how each and every one of us is contributing to the downfall of the content-creating movie industry.
Unfortunately the MPAA has employed some rather dubious tactics in the pursuit of this, including blatantly lying to make the specter of peer-to-peer file-sharing look much more scary and damaging than it actually is.




