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PATSY T. MINK
Member of Congress
MINK, Patsy Takemoto, 1927-2002         Patsy MINK Letter To InternetMovies.com

Posted on: 04/20/2001

Message to MPAA/ISP's and Internet Users

The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) has closed down InternetMovies.com one time so far, but we are not crying about it. We were down for a full one second. We get knocked down but we just pop right back up. They have made false accusations, saying that InternetMovies.com is doing Unauthorized Distribution of Copyrighted Motion Pictures like, "Lord of The Rings" that was not even out yet (at the time of this posting). I would like to see them prove that. There was a link to a trailer page on Apple.com that had a link to the Lord of The Rings trailer, but this is not distribution, it is called linking and it had been there for a full year. All we do is report the news about what is happening with movies on the Internet. We do not even post hyperlinks to files that are copyrighted Motion Pictures. By flexing their BIG muscles in order to close this site down the MPAA has infringed on our First Amendment Rights, do you care about that? All of us at InternetMovies.com are sorry, MPAA, that you are going through hard times with movie piracy on the Internet, but shutting down this web site is uncalled for. We like to report about good things too, like ways to solve your problems and where to find non infringing movie sites. Send us your good news about movies on the Internet and we will post it.

Respectfully,
InternetMovies.com

Here Is The Letter and Email From The MPAA

MPAA Letter To The ISP

MPAA E-Mail To InternetMovies.com

From CrapyRight.com
"Ignorance breeds violence and constricting the free flow of information breeds ignorance."
Michael Jay Rossi
InternetMovies TM

From Digitalconsumer.org
"In 1998 Hollywood went to Congress with a proposition: give them greater copyright protection and they would unleash a tidal wave of legal, downloadable digital movies and music for consumers to enjoy. As a result, Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

Congress lived up to its end of the bargain. Hollywood did not. Four years after the passage of the DMCA, the only outcome has been media company lawsuits against innovative companies and threats against consumers.

Now, Hollywood is back with the CBDTPA making the same claims they made in 1998: "Give us more protection and great things will happen." We have no reason to believe that the CBDTPA will be any different than the DMCA."

From infoAnarchy Mission Statement
"By outlawing hyperlinks and peer-to-peer sharing software, they are effectively trying to pull us back from many-to-many to few-to-many. They would like the Internet to be just TV with some extra features. This is, obviously, in violation of the First Amendment, other national free speech laws, and the internationally guaranteed right to freedom of speech."

Here is a flyer from 2600.com
"STOP THE MPAA The Motion Picture Association of America, the organization that plays a major part in nearly every movie made, is shutting down thousands of websites worldwide and suing countless individuals simply because they offer information on DVD technology that the MPAA wants to keep out of your hands. "

Blue Ribbon Campaign from EFF.org
"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes the freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any means regardless of frontiers."

Campaign for Accountability from OurMediaVoice.org
"TV broadcasters serve their profits first and put the genuine interests of the public a distant second. What needs to change is for the public to begin to articulate what we define as our public interest. Once that happens, citizens will have the power to force the media to be accountable."




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