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Motion Picture Association Chief Condemns File Sharing.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 2003
By Gwenn Miller, Centre Daily Times, State College, Pa. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 23--UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.--To Jack Valenti, president and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, there is no difference between stealing a movie from a video store and downloading a pirated movie from the Internet.
To him, file sharing is a black-and-white issue. If you take something from a creator without paying for it, he said, it's wrong.
Valenti addressed those issues at the Penn State Forum lunch Wednesday, speaking mostly to faculty, staff and very few of the students he said he likes to address.
In his talk, Valenti couched the high-tech world of the Internet in moral terms. He said there must be a moral...
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