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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 18, 2010
SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE APPROVES BILL TOCRACK DOWN ON DIGITAL THEFT BY ROGUE WEBSITES
WASHINGTON
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The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee today unanimously approved legislation to provide the Justice Department with new tools to crack down on the theft and distribution of illegal digital movies, television shows and other counterfeit material by rogue websites on the Internet. The following is a statement by Bob Pisano, President and Interim CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA):
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These rogue sites exist for one purpose only: to make a profit using the Internet to distribute thestolen and counterfeited goods and ideas of others. The economic impact of these activities
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millions of lost jobs and dollars
—is profound. That‘s why dozens of labor organizations and
businesses groups have come together to support the bill approved today by the Judiciary Committee. As part of a wide ranging coalition of workers and businesses whose jobs and financial health havebeen placed at risk by content theft, we commend Senators Patrick Leahy and Orrin Hatch for theirleadership on this bill. We look forward to working with them and the other cosponsors of thelegislation, along with their colleagues in the House to help the Combating Online Infringement andCounterfeits Act become law. The film and television industry alone is responsible for more than 2.4 million hard working, middle-class jobs in all 50 states. For these workers and their families, digital theft means declining incomes,lost jobs and reduced health and retirement benefits. Unfortunately, this means nothing to theoperators of rogue websites who seek to benefit illegally from the hard work of others. The operators of these sites use a variety of means to facilitate their goals
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advertising, rentals, salesand charges for premium services. They are commonly assisted
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sometimes unwittingly-- by American companies whose ads are placed on the sites by brokers. They are also often aided by enterprises that provide the financial services for their schemes. As Sen. Leahy has noted, these are the
‗
worst of the worst
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online websites. The operators of thesesites knowingly break the law, harm the American economy, deprive American intellectual property
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