January 24, 2006

MPAA Called Out For Illegally Copying Doc About The MPAA.

(Posted In Documentary Film News USA and Canada )

mpaa-ad.jpgAre you paying attention Alanis? Rain on your wedding day is not ironic. The lawsuit happy, anti-piracy crusading MPAA being called out for illegally duplicating a movie critical of the MPAA's ratings process? That's ironic.

This Film Is Not Yet Rated director Kirby Dick has accused the MPAA of illegally making copies of his film. The MPAA, for their part, acknowledge that they did indeed copy the film without asking permission or paying for the right to do so, but they don't seem to think the laws they enforce on everyone else should apply to them. Nice.

Cinematical has all the details here.

Thanks to Rob for the pointer.

» Posted by Todd at January 24, 2006 10:58 PM
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Reader Comments

This is the part wher Nelson (of Simpsons fame) shows up and says: "Ha, ha!".

» Posted by Joshua Pettigrew at January 24, 2006 11:39 PM

Although a song about irony in which all of the examples are unironic is itself ironic, so she kind of squeaks by. Kind of

» Posted by G at January 24, 2006 11:40 PM

That argument's been done on I Love the 90's.

» Posted by evergreen at January 25, 2006 12:34 AM

they must not have liked the view from the moral highground anyway.

» Posted by rob at January 25, 2006 03:34 AM

At this point, if any of the non-ironic things Alanis mentions in her song were to happen to somebody aware of the non-irony of it, it might actually be considered ironic.

» Posted by Milo at January 25, 2006 06:12 AM

I hope they have to fine themselves

» Posted by Zoltan at January 25, 2006 04:35 PM

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