[Infowarrior] - MPAA: If We Don't Stop Piracy, The Internet Will Die

[Richard Forno]

MPAA Tells The FCC: If We Don't Stop Piracy, The Internet Will Die
from the moral-panic dept
Never let it be said that the folks in Hollywood aren't good at coming  
up with a totally fictional horror story. I just have a problem when  
they use it not to entertain, but to create a moral panic to push the  
government to pass laws in their favor. In discussing the recent 60  
Minutes piece that was really nothing more than an MPAA scare tactic,  
some suggested that it was really just a first step in the process of  
getting the government to make sure net neutrality rules had a special  
Hollywood exception. So, it's interesting to note that just before  
that 60 Minutes episode aired (and just before Halloween), the MPAA  
sent a "scary" filing to the FCC warning it how the US would always be  
a broadband laggard if it didn't stomp out piracy. The full filing  
(warning:pdf) claims, repeatedly, that piracy is sucking up all our  
bandwidth and getting rid of that would somehow make it cheaper to  
install faster internet connections.

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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091103/0434486780.shtml