[Infowarrior] - MPAA's latest drivel

[Richard Forno]

MPAA To USTR: More Shutdowns Like Megaupload, Please

from the protectionism-at-its-finest dept

The USTR has released the various comments sent in for its annual "notorious markets" report. This is related to its annual Special 301 report, and it's where the USTR basically takes the list of sites and countries that the entertainment industry (and the pharmaceutical industry) don't like... and declares them "notorious" for not doing enough to please the execs in those industries in cracking down on infringement. TorrentFreak points us to the latest filing from the MPAA, which is chock full of... not a single surprise. Basically it just names all the websites that it doesn't like because they challenge its business model. Same old story. But where it gets a little interesting is where the MPAA gleefully talks up how totally awesome it was when the feds shut down Megaupload, and implies that life would be that much grander if the feds did that kind of thing more often:...

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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121205/16451021247/mpaa-to-ustr-more-shutdowns-like-megaupload-please.shtml

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