MPAA Hosts Screening Of Total Recall To "Educate" Congress On 'Benefits' Of IP Protection - Polidicks

[url]http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120731/18195619901/is-this-real-is-this-recall-mpaa-hosts-screening-total-recall-to-educate-congress-benefits-ip-protection.shtml[/url] [thumb]http://i.imgur.com/z4RR2.png[/thumb] [quote=Techdirt]It's been said that Hollywood is completely out of ideas, and all it does these days is the same thing over and over again. That seems to be the case both on the policy front and with its movies. So how perfect is it that the MPAA's gift-of-the-month to Congress is a showing of the remake of the movie Total Recall? As we noted in our post about the MPAA's special showing of the latest Batman flick, to get around breaking gift giving guidelines, the MPAA includes a special "educational component," before its movies, which somehow makes it okay. We heard from attendees of the Batman showing that (amazingly) no mention of copyright or piracy issues was made in the "educational" component. Rather it was a presentation about the Natural History Museum and how it was doing things with IMAX, as well as a Time Warner presentation about its online offerings like HBO GO, TV Everywhere and Ultra Violet. However, this month, the MPAA will more directly address the copyright issue, as you can see in the invite below, where they note the "educational" component will be about "the impact of film in the global economy and the benefit of IP protection to global trade." As the tagline of the movie says, "Is it real? Is it recall?" One has to imagine that the "educational" content will be particularly one sided, and I'd question how "real" the lesson will be. The stats that the MPAA is fond of throwing out are rarely anywhere close to reality. The presentation almost certainly won't "recall" the fact that due to the MPAA's own ridiculously extreme position on "IP protection" in "global trade," the ACTA agreement has more or less killed the agreement (at least for the majority of Europe). If Congress wants an educational lesson on the role of IP and international trade, they might want to "recall" that the MPAA is just about the last place to go to get any sense of "reality."[/quote]

[quote]One has to imagine that the "educational" content will be particularly one sided[/quote] If you go read something written by a hardcore anti-piracy organisation (or a pro-piracy one for that matter) and don't expect any bias, you're delusional.

There's probably going to be nice stashes of cash under the theater seats

[QUOTE=The golden;37039781]I thought they already gave congress all of their cash.[/QUOTE] The twist: the MPAA can print their own cash!

[QUOTE=MaxOfS2D;37039759]There's probably going to be nice stashes of cash under the theater seats[/QUOTE]Now everybody look under your seats. You're getting you very own BRIIIIBEEES.

They should of shown the original, without Arnold the message will not be as clear.

Someone should videotape it during the screening and post it online.

[QUOTE=Jad Hinto;37039802]Now everybody look under your seats. You're getting you very own BRIIIIBEEES.[/QUOTE] YOU'RE GETTING A BRIBE! AND YOU'RE GETTING A BRIBE, AND YOU TOO! EVERYONES GETTING A BRAND NEW BRIBE!

[QUOTE=GunFox;37039979]Someone should videotape it during the screening and post it online.[/QUOTE] Please this

£10 says that at the end of the film the american national anthem plays with a tearful bald eagle saying "THE INTERNET AND PIRACY WILL CAUSE THE DEATH OF FREEDOM AND LIBERTY'

MPAA needs to go

[QUOTE=Jad Hinto;37039802]Now everybody look under your seats. You're getting you very own BRIIIIBEEES.[/QUOTE] It's 2am here now, so I'm a bit tired, so I thought you said bride, and from there the train of thought went to getting blown while watching the movie.

[QUOTE=nikomo;37041581]It's 2am here now, so I'm a bit tired, so I thought you said bride, and from there the train of thought went to getting blown while watching the movie.[/QUOTE] Only if the movie is shown in an airport bathroom.

[QUOTE=MaxOfS2D;37039759]There's probably going to be nice stashes of cash under the theater seats[/QUOTE] Jokes on them, the money's gonna get stuck to the floor.

It would be the best goddamned thing if the screening was somehow found illegal

[QUOTE=Joazzz;37041026]MPAA needs to go[/QUOTE] Um then we have no movies

[QUOTE=GunFox;37039979]Someone should videotape it during the screening and post it online.[/QUOTE] if it's open to the public i'd be more than happy to