Have a Home Theater System? You Owe the MPAA $50

Posted by Brian C. Gibson (brian@filmschoolrejects.com) on November 30, 2006

Well I don’t know if you heard folks, but MPAA head Dan Glickman has stated that the MPAA doesn’t want to lose any more money. If you or anyone you knows has a home theater, you will soon have to register it with the MPAA and pay a $50 fee. If you do not register your home theater, you may face a $500,000 fine for each film shown. You might ask, what exactly makes up a home theater? Well the MPAA says that a home theater consists of:

- Television larger than 29″
- Stereo Sound
- At least two comfortable chairs, couch or futon

Glickman explains that, “We didn’t act early enough with the online sharing of our copyrighted content. This time we’re not making the same mistake. We have a right to know what’s showing in a theater.” He went on further to say, “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.”

Now, this news was featured on BBSpot.com, and is completely fake. If I had you going there, don’t worry because you were not the only ones fooled. Tech columnist John C. Dvorak was fooled and even cried about this injustice on his blog in this article. I do love parody, and if you do too check out the original article here.

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