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Slyck Interviews the MPAA

An anonymous reader writes "P2P community and news source, Slyck, interviewed vice president Dean Garfield of the MPAA. Topics covered range from the MPAA's thoughts on BitTorrent, Limewire and DRM. Garfield acknowledges that they do not have much of a grip on the file-sharing world as they would like to believe."

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  1. Uhh by Poromenos1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    The motion picture industry is working aggressively to take advantage of wide array of digital distribution platforms

    He misspelled "ban".

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  2. Misread you by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've misread what you wrote as "The moron picture industry".

    Sorry.

  3. You know by FidelCatsro · · Score: 3, Funny

    I would like to say what the MPAA do have a firm grip on , though it would be considered rather untoward in polite company(Hint , it includes all of them partaking in corporal punishment of monkeys )

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  4. Well, yes: by SamSim · · Score: 2, Funny

    Garfield acknowledges that they do not have much of a grip on the file-sharing world as they would like to believe.

    Well, yes, as proven by the fact that file-sharing still occurs.

  5. I almost read the article... by slapout · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...because when I first say the headline I thought it said they had interviewed Garfield the cat.

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  6. Re:Loses credibility here... by mzwaterski · · Score: 3, Funny

    If murder was legal, we'd have fewer people in jail. I know that much.

  7. Actually by quokkapox · · Score: 2, Funny

    He accidentally wrote "working aggressively" instead of "failing to".

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  8. Re:the real issue is... by ZachPruckowski · · Score: 2, Funny

    "It's extremely cheap to make dupes now"

    That explains everything.