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Interview with MPAA Chief Dan Glickman

Posted by michael on from the mama-don't-your-babies-grow-up-to-use-kazaa dept.

farmerbuzz writes "USAToday has an interview with Dan Glickman (Jack Valenti's replacement as the CEO of the MPAA) where he announces that the MPAA will begin suing movie downloaders. An interesting point brought up in the interview: 'At the time the RIAA announced its lawsuits, it said music sales had fallen 25% over a three-year period. The MPAA is in a much different situation. Box office receipts aren't down at all -- 2003's figures were $9.5 billion, the second biggest in history.'"

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  1. Re:Fuzzy math by mindstrm · · Score: 3, Informative

    THe distinction you are making is only a temporary one, and they used to say the same thing about music.

    Most DVD rips are now full quality. Yes, some people transcode in order to fit the movie on a DVDR... others will simply use two DVDr's. Now, with dual-layer DVDr, this is not necessary either.

    Further, some poeple just leave them on hard disk, and play from there.

    Good DVD rips are identical to the original DVD. Good transcoded DVD rips are very close to the original DVD (just as good mp3 rips are very close to the original cd)

    Soon, it won't matter.