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.
  • 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.
  • Safe and insecure

    I opened up my wireless home network to the world, and I've never felt more comfortable.
  • 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?
  • 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.
  • 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?
  • 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.
  • 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?
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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?
  • 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.
  • Copywrong?

    A government report giving the Digital Millennium Copyright Act a passing grade is a disaster for the general public, say critics.
  • No free speech for animal rights Web sites

    A British medical research firm hammers its online opponents, courtesy of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
  • Fingered by the movie cops

    Under today's copyright laws, you are guilty until proven innocent. I know -- it happened to me.
  • Escaping the Napster trap

    Hackers and movie traders love the digital film compression software DivX -- but will Hollywood? Second of two parts.
  • 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.
  • DeCSS judge: Code isn't free speech

    MPAA president Jack Valenti cheers the decision. Next stop: Appeals court.
  • 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.
  • Anal-ize this

    As Hollywood comedies get coarse 'n' coarser, ratings ain't what they used to be.
  • Code on trial

    Does the DVD-decrypting DeCSS do for video what Napster did for music, and can copyright law stop it?
  • 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.
  • Can hyperlinks be outlawed?

    Movie studios aim to criminalize links to DeCSS, a banned DVD-decryption program.
  • 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?
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