[FYI] State Attorney - the MPAA's man - urges P2P ban
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State Attorney - the MPAA's man - urges P2P ban
By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Posted: 15/03/2004 at 22:40 GMT
The democratic veneer over the business of buying the legislation you
want has never looked thinner. California's State Attorney General
Bill Lockyer has been caught acting as a public relations front for
Hollywood's big money copyright holders, only on the public's dime.
Nominally, the role of Attorney General is to act on behalf of all
citizens of California, including consumers and recording artists.
Lockyer called for a ban on peer-to-peer file sharing software, in a
letter issued to other attorneys general, obtained by Wired. But
earlier revisions of the Microsoft Word document indicate that the
author was "stevensonv". This is believed to be one Vans Stevenson,
the Motion Picture Association of America's senior vice president for
legislative affairs, and one of its most visible lobbyists.
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