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June 23, 2005
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Through the Looking Glass with the MPAA
Constitutional Code has been all over a, at best, misleading, MPAA press release on a copyright infringement raid at a DVD plant in Southern California (Machiavellian Picture Association of America). The MPAA was forced to correct itself, including its estimate of the amount of infringement:
The trade group said the $30 million figure was reached by estimating the value of the DVDs that could be produced by the stamping machines that were seized.
By that standard I'm capable of hundreds of thousands of dollars of infringement with the couple of DVD and CD burners I have. Of course, we're supposed to, you know,
believe the MPAA when they make claims about the damages they suffer from copyright infringement.
"When I use a word," Dan Glickman said, in a rather scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
"The question is," said Dan Glickman, "which is to be master - that's all."
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Ernest Miller pursues research and writing on cyberlaw, intellectual property, and First Amendment issues. Mr. Miller attended the U.S. Naval Academy before attending Yale Law School, where he was president and co-founder of the Law and Technology Society, and founded the technology law and policy news site LawMeme. He is a fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
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