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Harvard shares responsibility for the recent surge in digital piracy, Motion Picture Association of America President Jack Valenti said in a speech yesterday in the Kirkland House Senior Common Room...
...Harvard needs to let students know its policy, that downloading movies on peer-to-peer networks is stealing,” Valenti said...
...Valenti, the man who designed the current system for rating movies in America after serving as special assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson during the Vietnam War, had met with University President Lawrence H. Summers earlier yesterday morning to discuss the movie industry’s piracy concerns...
...such activity. The studios contend that DECSS could spawn a filmic Napster if users decode DVDs into reproducible - and distributable - format. Losses could be huge: research firm Screen Digest estimates that in 2002 Europeans will spend more than ?5.2 billion on DVDs. Programs like DECSS, says MPA chairman Jack Valenti, "destroy crucial protection and expose industry to the real risk of further massive losses due to piracy." Big business feels the same way about the work of other programmers, from upstarts like Johansen to academics who make a living by probing, tinkering and reverse engineering - which is one reason...
...makers of Replay, the other against the creators of Morpheus and two similar file-sharing services called Grokster and Kazaa. While it may be O.K. to copy a show for yourself on the VCR, "it's not O.K. to start sending it around and file sharing," warns Jack Valenti, CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America. The first legal face-off begins March 4 with a hearing on the Morpheus case in federal district court in Los Angeles. The Replay trial is scheduled for August...