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MPAA Puts Words in Mouth of CA Attorney General

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the hard-copies-still-untraceable dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In another example of Microsoft Word meta data coming back to bite you, Wired News reports that a document circulated by the California Attorney General to fellow lawmakers supporting new restrictions on P2P software was actually authored by a senior vice president of the Motion Picture Association of America."

6 of 685 comments (clear)

  1. How can I too read this meta-data? by trp642 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Use the Antiword!

  2. Misleading summary by RyoSaeba · · Score: 5, Informative
    Summary is misleading:
    was actually authored
    but the article states:
    it was either drafted or reviewed by a senior vice president of the Motion Picture Association of America.
    (emphasis mine)
    --
    Tsuyoikoto ha taisetsu da ne, dakedo namida mo hitsuyousa (Strength is an important thing, but tears too are necessary)
  3. Re:This isn't just about RIAA/MPAA by zephyr1256 · · Score: 5, Informative

    But note: if the goal is to "legitimize" p2p so that artists get paid, how would you do it? The EFF has come up with a solution called Voluntary Collective Licensing that would allow artists to be paid for filesharing that is going to occur anyway.

  4. Re:Democracy in corporations. by I+am+Jack's+username · · Score: 5, Informative
    > This has been tried out, by a south american
    > corporation. Unfortunately, I forget the name
    > of the person that introduced this.
    > -- ravind

    The company is called Semco, it's in Brazil, and the CEO is Ricardo Semler. You can read about it in his excellent book Maverick!. He's written a follow up called The Seven Day Weekend which I'm getting when it's available here in paperback.

    "If democracy and self-rule are the fundamentals, then why should people give up these rights when they enter their work place? In politics we fight like tigers for freedom, for the right to elect our leaders, for freedom of movement, choice of residence, choice of what work to pursue -- control of our lives, in short. And then we wake up in the morning and go to work, and all those rights disappear. We no longer insist on them. And so for most of the day we return to feudalism. That is what capitalism is -- a version of feudalism in which capital replaces land, and business leaders replace kings. But the hierarchy remains." - Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars, 1996

  5. Re:Corporate Policymaking by frankie · · Score: 5, Informative
    But to have actual direct input into policy making as the VP of a for-profit organization must be illegal and if it is not should be made so immediately.

    Not illegal. Not even close. In fact, there are many currently-standing laws that are:

    1. written entirely by private organizations
    2. copyrighted by those organizations, with a limited license granted to the government for enforcement purposes
    3. if you want to read the frickin law you must buy a copy from the private company
    And for the grand finale: any other person who makes copies of these laws available to the public is prosecuted for copyright violation! Note that the this case was appealed to the US Supreme Court, but they refused to hear it.

    The law of the land is: you don't talk about the law of the land.

  6. Re:Democracy by hal9000 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, the untruncated quote is:

    The first stage of fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and Corporate power.

    --
    Look out honey, 'cause I'm using technology; Ain't got time to make no apology