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MPAA Chief's Net Neutrality Remarks Criticized
The Digital Freedom campaign, a group that supports "fair use" of copyrighted content, responded Monday to recent remarks made by Motion Picture Association of America chief Dan Glickman regarding his opposition to net neutrality legislation. Read more about his speech last week at CongressDaily's TechCentral.
At the ShoWest summit in Las Vegas, Glickman railed against government regulation of the Internet, claiming it would impede studios' ability to respond to their consumers in an innovative ways. Digital Freedom spokeswoman Maura Corbett said it was shocking "that a group that regularly pleads for government regulation of technology could suddenly develop total amnesia."
"We suspect the big studios are rolling the Trojan Horse of 'copyright enforcement' to Congress to protect their business models from openness offered by the Internet," she said. "Given MPAA’s aversion [to] government regulation, we eagerly look forward to them standing down on broadcast flag legislation, the analog hole bill, and other initiatives to restrict consumers and limit new technologies.” Ouch!
Posted by Andrew on March 17, 2008 02:55 PM | Permalink
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