Says that monitoring traffic for copyrighted work would be expensive, a waste of time, a violation of their user's privacy and could make them liable for legal action. Man, I wish I could get FIOS to my apartment.

"The entertainment industry has to maintain a straight face and tell you that Gigli or Battlefield Earth are every bit as valuable as Wedding Crashers or Star Wars or nobody will go see them."

Alternate headline: Microsoft tells future customers to grab their ankles

But they're only gonna give you $5 back if you saw the craptacular movies they lied about

Almost makes me want to move back to Virginia. Almost.

Orwell had it almost right -- it won't be fascist governments putting their boot on the throat of humanity, but their corporate overlords. Also, this is some rather good reporting from Xeni Jardin, color me surprised.

In that oh-so-handy torrent format...

God TV news sucks - this asshat was trying to score an exclusive interview from a woman who had just been held hostage

Now I get why the MPAA wants region coded DVD's - so they can gouge American customers!

This is pretty fucked in every way imaginable, not to mention the fact that LokiTorrent hosted exactly zero files (via Daring Fireball via Waxy)

No honor amongst thieves

MPAA disinformation site on copyright, including software to scan your machine for P2P apps and "illegal" material. Also, what a craptastic flash site [via /.]

I figured it was a "thou shalt not steal" thing, but it turns out they're in it "for the children"

The MPAA starts the arms race, but they're already behind, considering torrent trackers are now distributable