FCC Urged To Protect Web Entertainment
Hollywood studios are asking the FCC to make protecting creative content online a core principal of its national broadband plan. In a late Friday filing, the Motion Picture Association of America wrote that if the plan -- due to Congress in February -- is to serve as a roadmap for high-speed Internet service for all Americans, the government must recognize the role content plays in driving adoption of new technologies. The filing came on the heels a September FCC workshop that featured testimony from MPAA Chairman Dan Glickman and Paramount Pictures Chief Operating Officer Frederick Huntsberry.
"Compelling content is an essential ingredient in the consumer Internet experience and a key driver of broadband adoption. Inadequate respect for creative rights online will impede the rollout of creative new content offerings, undermining the Commission's, Congress' and the administration's goal of ubiquitous national broadband," the MPAA said in its filing. "The government cannot let the anonymity of the Internet become a cloak behind which people think that unlawful conduct can continue unabated."
Read the MPAA's full filing here.
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