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MPAA Plans To Launch Movie Links Site

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday July 28, 2008 @08:20AM from the not-evil-just-confused dept.

eldavojohn writes "To combat piracy, the MPAA's latest idea involves a site that would allow users to search for a movie and then provide links to legit legal downloads or ticket purchases for it. Why are they doing this? Because their research showed 'many users have a hard time differentiating between legal and illegal content online.' And all this time I thought people pirated movies because it was cheaper to do! Turns out they were just confused."

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It's true. by rtechie · 2008-07-28 08:34 · Score: 0, Troll

The /. crowd is pretty savvy, but surveys have shown that over 50% of Internet users, especially overseas, believe P2P content is LEGAL. I knew the Napster people, and most Napster users also believed that Napster was 100% legal.
People sincerely believe all sorts of obviously wrong things all the time. 30% of Americans believe Barack Obama is a Muslim. 60-70% of Americans believe in Creationism. etc.