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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedPiracy was big focus for industry groups.
Video Business, January, 2005 by Gallo, Eliza
Last year was marked by the looming opportunities and pitfalls of the next-generation DVD technology and by continued efforts to stem piracy and reinforce copyright protection.
The Motion Picture Assn. of America's major legislative accomplishment in the area of anti-piracy in 2004 was putting a stop to H.R. 107, said MPAA executive VP government affairs and Washington general counsel Frit: Attaway. The bill would have altered the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, rendering it legal to circumvent encryption codes to make "non-infringing use" of a copyrighted work.
"It would essentially have repealed the DMCA," Attaway said. "It would have specifically made legal any device that was capable of a non-infringing use."
Attaway also touts...
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