Motion Picture Association of America

  • Rated "R" for righteous

    "This Movie Is Not Yet Rated" pulls back the curtain on the secretive MPAA movie ratings board, moral "experts" determined to protect little Johnny from pubic hair and bad language.
    By Stephanie Zacharek August 31, 2006

  • Is your computer a loaded gun?

    At a Senate hearing on Thursday, defenders of the Induce Act -- which would ban technologies that encourage copyright infringement -- will try to explain why their bill isn't the stupidest idea they've ever come up with.
    By Siva Vaidhyanathan July 22, 2004

  • Safe and insecure

    I opened up my wireless home network to the world, and I've never felt more comfortable.
    By Micah Joel May 18, 2004

  • The enigma of Earth Station 5

    Can a file-trading network that promises total anonymity and is based in the Palestinian Territories escape the wrath of the entertainment industry?
    By Mathew Honan December 3, 2003

  • Hollywood to the computer industry: We don't need no stinking Napsters!

    Fearful of piracy, the studios want the federal government to legislate how computers are made. Critics say such interference signals the end of the line for digital innovation.
    By Farhad Manjoo October 27, 2003

  • Hollywood goes down

    A spate of new films -- one with girl-next-door Meg Ryan -- depict graphic oral sex scenes. Is the film industry's portrayal of sexuality finally beginning to get real?
    By Rebecca Traister October 23, 2003

  • Sanitized for our protection

    Teenage movie fans can watch the stars of the execrable "Bad Boys II" leer over a corpse's breasts, but the all-powerful movie ratings board probably won't allow Americans to see the Italian master Bertolucci's new film intact.
    By Charles Taylor September 5, 2003

  • Target: Boobs, guns and Coke

    A new advocacy group called Common Sense Media is starting to rate the "kid friendliness" of movies, TV shows, CDs and video games. Will their services be a godsend for parents -- or just another V-chip?
    By Brian Montopoli June 17, 2003

  • Embrace file-sharing, or die

    A record executive and his son make a formal case for freely downloading music. The gist: 50 million Americans can't be wrong.
    By John Snyder and Ben Snyder February 1, 2003

  • Hollywood and Silicon Valley: Together at last?

    A new industry agreement on digital copyright issues says the government should stay out of enforcement. But it's a little late for that, says one expert.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski January 15, 2003

  • U.S. prepares to invade your hard drive

    A bill before Congress would mandate built-in copy-protection on all digital devices. But even technology experts who really want to protect intellectual property think it's a lousy idea.
    By Paul Boutin March 29, 2002

  • Chained melodies

    Copyright-holding corporations are pushing new laws and computer-crippling technologies in their war on piracy. But can anything keep geeks from copying the music and movies they crave?
    By Damien Cave March 13, 2002

  • DVD pirates and hobbits in Southeast Asia

    A backpacking tourist in Laos gets his hands on "The Fellowship of the Ring" just two weeks after its U.S. release.
    By Jeff Radice February 27, 2002

  • Copywrong?

    A government report giving the Digital Millennium Copyright Act a passing grade is a disaster for the general public, say critics.
    By Damien Cave August 31, 2001

  • No free speech for animal rights Web sites

    A British medical research firm hammers its online opponents, courtesy of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski August 31, 2001

  • Fingered by the movie cops

    Under today's copyright laws, you are guilty until proven innocent. I know -- it happened to me.
    By Amita Guha August 23, 2001

  • Escaping the Napster trap

    Hackers and movie traders love the digital film compression software DivX -- but will Hollywood? Second of two parts.
    By Damien Cave March 19, 2001

  • Escaping the Napster trap

    DivX Networks aims to do for video what MP3s have done for music. Can it please both hackers and the movie biz? First of two parts.
    By Damien Cave March 15, 2001

  • DeCSS judge: Code isn't free speech

    MPAA president Jack Valenti cheers the decision. Next stop: Appeals court.
    By Damien Cave August 18, 2000

  • A hacker crackdown?

    As the long arm of the law reaches Napster and its lookalikes, programmers could be held responsible for what others do with their code.
    By Damien Cave August 7, 2000

  • Anal-ize this

    As Hollywood comedies get coarse 'n' coarser, ratings ain't what they used to be.
    By Gregg Kilday August 3, 2000

  • Code on trial

    Does the DVD-decrypting DeCSS do for video what Napster did for music, and can copyright law stop it?
    By Damien Cave July 19, 2000

  • Two minutes of sheer excitement!

    There was a time when movie trailers managed a rough poetry. Today, they're infuriatingly generic, manically edited and ruined by plot spoilers.
    By Stephanie Zacharek June 20, 2000

  • Can hyperlinks be outlawed?

    Movie studios aim to criminalize links to DeCSS, a banned DVD-decryption program.
    By Damien Cave April 6, 2000

  • Do they know where you live?

    ICraveTV wants to build geographic "borders" online so it can stream live TV to specific markets -- but would regional divisions be acceptable for a World Wide Web?
    By Damien Cave February 28, 2000
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