Hollywood’s antipiracy charm offensive has FCC in crosshairs

Hollywood’s new campaign for government permission to police the Internet for copyright theft began this month with a segment on, of all places, CBS’s Sixty Minutes . Viewers expecting another of the shows’ self-described “hard-hitting investigative reports” watched a feature called The Movie Pirates, in which a shocked Leslie Stahl disclosed what was apparently a revelation to her—that people go into multiplexes with camcorders, record the movie, then package and sell it on the street. “Mobsters have moved into the piracy business, and it’s bleeding Hollywood to the tune of billions of dollars a year,” Stahl warned her viewers.

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