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Motion Picture Association Head Sounds Alert against Film Piracy.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, June, 2001
By Jesse Hiestand, Daily News, Los Angeles Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jun. 1--Runaway production, estimated to cost U.S. companies $10 billion a year, remains a major challenge for Hollywood's hometown industry -- but not the only one.
Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, speaking Thursday at the opening of the annual ShowBiz Expo, stressed the danger of Internet pirates doing to movies what Napster did to music -- make them widely available for free.
Bootlegging will always be a problem but the studios must stop the illegal swapping of movies before the public sees this as an accepted practice, he said.
"If you cannot protect copyrighted material on the Internet, then most of you are...
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