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Will the MPAA receive support from Obama on Internet piracy filtering?

The Hollywood studio lobbying organization, in a position paper posted on Obama's transition website -- change.gov -- writes that a top priority is "the fight against online piracy, including through automated detection and removal of infringing content." The group said it was "imperative to curb the theft of online content."

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Michael Hatamoto
Blogger

“The Obama transition team...is expected to continue to put pressure on Malaysia, Korea and other nations where camcording in theaters is a major problem -- a problem the MPAA says is a "major source of pirated motion pictures."”

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Egan Orion
Columnist

“Hollywood might well find sympathetic ears in the new administration... [Sen.] Biden shilled enthusiastically...by drafting, sponsoring and voting for a raft of legislation that was lobbied for by the large media corp[s]...[and] also supported the Bush['s] illegal...Internet surveillance...”

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Dan Glickman
Chairman / CEO of MPAA

“This is a high priority issue. If you look at the situation, the current economic crisis makes this problem much more serious than before. If we don't protect IPR (intellectual property rights), our economic losses will be far worse.”

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Tim Jones
Activism and Technology Manager, EFF

“The MPAA's faith in "filtering" is pure magical thinking. It presupposes invading the privacy of innocents and pirates alike by monitoring every packet on the Internet...And it ignores the reality of strong encryption...Sacrificing our privacy for the pipe-dreams of one industry is a bad idea.”

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Zero Paid
Torrent News Forum

“Of all the sectors of the economy worth the govts attention I think the motion picture industry ranks dead last. Instead of worrying about trying to somehow mold the world to suit its own ends it ought to instead focus on its customers and how and at what price they can deliver their product.”

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Edward J. Black
Lobbyist

“While a 'what's good for Disney must be good for America' approach to IP foreign policy may once have made sense, it now impedes efforts to repair our international relationships.”

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Barack Obama
President of the United States

“There is also little doubt that the Bush Administration, with the cooperation of major telecommunications companies, has abused that authority and undermined the Constitution by intercepting the communications of innocent Americans without their knowledge or the required court orders.”

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Dan Glickman
Chairman / CEO of MPAA

“US studios are saddled with $6-billion in annual losses due to piracy but the total global cost to the motion picture industry is three times as high...”

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David Kravets
Blogger

“Eleven companies and a university responded [to the MPAA], sharing their filtering visions and technology. The companies are: Advestigo, Audible Magic, Auditude, Gracenote, Intellivision, Magix/AudioID, NTT, Philips, Thomson, University of St. Andrew of Scotland, VidyaTel and Vobile...”

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