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In the The Willful Blindness of Jack Valenti in Copyfight, Ernest Miller analyzes a recent Valenti interview by J.D. Lasica and serves up delicious examples suggesting that Mr. MPAA:

–Is “Unclear on How Cryptography Works.”

–”Has Never Heard of 17 USC 107.”

–”Doesn’t Realize that the MPAA Opposed TiVo to Go.”

–”Thinks Digital Things Last Forever”

OK, so maybe Mr. MPAA could actually be more of a spin artist than a total idiot, but the Miller and Lasica items are still fun reads.

Related: Richard Stallman, you light-hearted optimist you!, Branko Collin‘s item on the relationship between copyright and freedom of speech. He doesn’t mention Valenti, but he might as well have. You might think of Jack as Hollywood’s Accidental John Ashcroft, given all the nasty implications of the DMCA and the like.

 
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