Valenti NYT Op-Ed vs. Valenti DeCSS Deposition

We're persuaded to post this... Anonymous points out some minor discrepencies between Jack-Valenti-during-a-deposition and Jack-Valenti-in-the-New-York-Times... "There he goes again. Jack Valenti, President of the Motion Picture Asociation of America, has yet another Op-Ed in Wednesday's New York Times putting forth the MPAA's particularly twisted notion of the purpose of U.S. Copyright law. We've seen it all before: the vitriolic name-calling ("casual thieves," "Internet marauders,"), the equating of infringement with theft (which it isn't, see Dowling v. United States, 473 U.S. 207), the demands for the transfer of even more rights from users to publishers/distributors, etc.

"What makes Valenti's piece interesting this time, though, it that it so closely follows his deposition in MPAA v. 2600 (the DeCSS case in NY). Compare this claim by Valenti in the NYT:

"A number of new movies, the ones now in theaters, have already been put on the Internet by pilfering zealots eager to enfold films in the same embrace now choking the music world, even though few computer users yet have ways to download them."

with these excerpts from the deposition:

Q Has anyone ever told you that they had ever seen on the internet a DVD de-encrypted by DECSS?
A I don't recall.
[...]
Q Do you know how many copies of films or
how many films have been copied through the
use of camcorders?
A A lot.
Q Do you know if any of those films have
been shown on the internet?
A I don't know.

Q Do you know whether the MPA has ever
checked into whether or not you can take a rented
movie and put that on the internet?
THE WITNESS: I don't know.
[...]
Q Do you know whether or not you can take
a video that you make, a duplicate, and then put
it on the internet?
THE WITNESS: I don't know.
[...]
Q You don't know whether it's possible or
whether or not it's legal. Is that right?
THE WITNESS: Don't know. I don't know
whether it's possible. I don't know whether it's
legal.
[...]
Q Do you know whether there have been any
instances where people have gone in with
camcorders and then taken the material from the
camcorder and translated it to the internet?
THE WITNESS: I don't know.
Q Do you know of instances where movies
have been shown on the internet where they have --
very shortly after the release of the film and
before DVDs or videos of that film have made
available to the public?
A I don't know.

If Jack Valenti knows so much about new movies appearing on the Internet that he can justify the claims made in his NYT Op-Ed, how come he couldn't remember any information about a single instance during his deposition?

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