Sunday, November 30, 2008

Hollywood & the Net

from "Obama Win Helps Tech, Could Hurt Hollywood," by Art Brodsky at The Huffington Post

Hollywood is at a crossroads in the policy world as it decides how to leverage its usual influence within a Democratic administration. In one direction is the traditional path of taking the offensive on perceived copyright wrongs...The alternative path is to look toward the future of the industry...Dan Glickman, the president of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), earlier this year came out squarely against Net Neutrality. He called it "regulating the Internet"...Hollywood's other major initiative is to search for copywrighted material online by having AT&T and other willing Internet Service Providers peek at everyone's data packets...



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