All hail our MPAA overlords!

Golgatha

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http://www.bbspot.com/News/2006/11/home-theater-regulations.html

The MPAA defines a home theater as any home with a television larger than 29" with stereo sound and at least two comfortable chairs, couch, or futon. Anyone with a home theater would need to pay a $50 registration fee with the MPAA or face fines up to $500,000 per movie shown.

"Just because you buy a DVD to watch at home doesn't give you the right to invite friends over to watch it too. That's a violation of copyright and denies us the revenue that would be generated from DVD sales to your friends," said Glickman. "Ideally we expect each viewer to have their own copy of the DVD, but we realize that isn't always feasible. The registration fee is a fair compromise.


I'm a law abiding citizen and they can ESAD for all I care with this attitude.
 

Eeezee

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This is the 3rd time this have been posted, search bar thank you

And it's been established that it's a joke :p
 

Rage187

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I hope you don't believe this

The bill would require that any hardware manufactured in the future contain technology that tells the MPAA directly of what is being shown and specific details on the audience. The data would be gathered using various motion sensors and biometric technology.