MPAA Revenue Grows, Chris Dodd Gets $2.4 Million

Ernesto
March 1, 2013
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The latest MPAA tax filing shows that the revenue generated by the anti-piracy group has started growing again after several years of decline. As a result the MPAA was able to double its legal spending and increase wages. After some earlier speculation, the filing reveals that MPAA boss and former Senator Chris Dodd earns a healthy income of more than $2.4 million a year.

chris dodd Last year we asked whether the MPAA was dying but today we can report that’s most certainly not the case.

The MPAA’s latest tax filing to the IRS was published this week, covering the fiscal year 2011. Despite the long reporting delay, the figures show some interesting trends.

After the group’s revenue was cut in half to $49.6 million during the previous three years, it started growing again in 2011. The filing lists total revenue at $60.8 million, which is a direct result of an increase in membership dues from the movie studios.

Despite the extra income, the MPAA reduced its number of employees from 247 to 205 in a year. However, the group didn’t cut back on total employee compensation which rose from $21.7 to $24.5 in the same time frame, with 10% going to MPAA boss Chris Dodd.

When former senator Dodd was appointed early 2011 the New York Times estimated his salary at $1.5 million, but this figure turned out to be $900,000 light. During his first year Dodd received a little over $2.4 million in compensation.

Robert Pisano, who stepped down as MPAA president in 2011, is placed second with an income of $1.3 million, followed by MPAA’s Senior Vice President Michael O’Leary with $530,000.

Looking at some of the other expenses we see that MPAA’s lobbying budget remained stable at $4.7 million. Legal costs on the other hand nearly doubled from $5.6 to $10.1 million.

More than two million of these legal expenses was paid to the Australian law firm Gilbert Tobin, who represented the movie studios in their case against Internet provider iiNet. The MPAA’s aim in this case was to hold the ISP responsible for the copyright infringements of its subscribers, an effort that ultimately failed in April last year.

Every year the MPAA also hands out several grants and in 2011 this included $150,000 to both the democratic and the republican governors associations. The purpose of the grants was to “promote the film industry” and indeed, in the same year the governors came out as strong supporters of SOPA and PIPA.

Despite the iiNet loss and the SOPA / PIPA debacle, the MPAA also booked quite a few successes on the legal front. The group played an important role in several movie streaming domain seizures and arrests, as well was the conviction of Anton Vickerman in the UK and the NinjaVideo admins in the US.

All in all it’s safe to conclude that the MPAA is still a force to be reckoned with.

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Anon1

And the Hollywood fat cats are laughing all the way to the bank.

“Every year the MPAA also hands out several grants” read: bribes.
- One-Eyed Willie
  
  Anyone up for an assassination? lol
  - marxmarv
    
    Cue Secret Service visit in 3… 2… 1….
    - http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
      
      Cue nothing happening in 3…. 2….. 1…. done!
    - Nasty
      
      Where? Where?
    - One-Eyed Willie
      
      It is all in good humor and anyone who is part of his ilk deserves nothing less than death. It is the only way we as a people will be free of their tyranny.
    - renob
      
      But these bastards usually reproduce a next generation of bastards that are raised in a warped world that has nothing to do with reality. It’ll be a never ending cycle.
    - PelouzeTF
      
      Like the never ending cycle of freeloaders that teach their kids that it’s better to sit around on the PC all day (like they do) downloading copy-written content rather than going out and getting a job ?
    - IDIOCRACY
      
      Tell that to the 8.7% of jobless people or better to the 13% of people working for free in Finland, tell that to the 24% of jobless people in Greece, tell that to the 20% of jobless people in Spain, tell it to the people that got fired the last few years and do not get a new job because of their age or to high education, tell it to the people whose jobs are taken over by cheap immigrant workers all in the name of profit …. and you still wonder why you are not being taken seriously here?? You are evidently as dumb as bobby… and also making an @ss out of yourself hehe.
      
      But one thing you got straight, the never ending story of freedom being forced into place by pirates on the internet finding workarounds to the blocks of the ….(fill in whatever name of a copywrong body).
      
      Pirating is now another word for Freedom Fighters in stead of people downloading illegal offered content.
      
      So I fixed your comment a little… I guess you do not yet know the difference between:
      
      1) freeloaders teaching their kids to download while they are playing outside in the sun or rain, in the fresh air of the countyside, knowing their machines will do the work and there is no need to sit behind it to download the latest songs of their favorite indie artist or a game put on the web for download by the developers (022A757ABC4A2AE74704AC8372177A079B2C0E84)
      
      and
      
      2) People that don’t know shit about the internet and its possibilities and hang on to old business models.. oh that is you… hehe
      
      Guess you should crawl back into your bed and don’t forget your independ slip, else you might wet your bed, having a nightmare about people actually standing up for their rights.
      hehe
    - momssoup
      
      You bitching about unemployment and the dire
      economies of countries is ironic. If people like you actually bought
      stuff rather than freeloading everything there would be less adverse
      impact on economies.
      
      “Pirating is now another word for Freedom Fighters….” Get over yourself.
      
      “you might wet your bed, having a nightmare about people actually standing up for their rights.”. What about the rights of the copyright and rights holders? Oh I get it, you think only freeloaders have rights. So much for your “freedom” theory.
    - Guest321
      
      Clearly its because of piracy, the MPAA can no longer pay their employees any money and had to fire 42 of them. That’s why Chris Dodd is laughing all the way to the bank with his $2.4 million, an extremely meager amount, not enough to even buy bread these days.
    - platyourpus
      
      OK Mom,made your point,now go and stir your soup please.
    - IDIOCRACY
      
      Woehaha… and you believe that the money spend on that stuff you are talking about, is beneficial to the economy. Wake UP… that money goes to directly to the pockets of people that have more money than they can ever spend, that is destructive to the economy. So to conclude is that Free loaders as you call them (I would like to call them try before you buy) are actually good to they economy. Hight bandwidth need generates revenue to Telco’s they require more people to keep providing this. More hardware (HDD) being sold… keeping the supplying companies alive. Generate a whole new field of jobs for indie industry.
      All the money not spend to line the pockets of chris dodd will be spend on other goods hence stimulating the own economy instead of those entertainment lobby pockets.
      So Sir… you are the actual freeloader here by advocating we are….. we are the true hero’s of economy. hehe
    - guest
      
      Since the majority of countries have a negative entertainment export (they buy in more than they sell), the majority of countries will benefit more from piracy.
      
      Buy/pirate local, pirate foreign.
    - PelouzeTF
      
      No need to attempt to alter my comment, it was correct as it was. And jobless statistics have nothing to do with the current issue and certainly were not created by media companies.
      
      I always find it interesting how people who don’t run an internet business where there a large costs for actually creating things (you) actually think they know more about how to run one than those who do (me).
      
      I’m sure your idea of a successful business is that the site owner should be allowed to operate on bare bones costs and blame “user uploads” so they get to fill their coffers with millions of $ of content that media creators create at vast expense. Then when those creators take umbrage to the plethora of freeloading scumbags infringing their rights, you shout “freedom, censorship !!!” lol.
      
      “freedom fighters” lol – you really are a funny bunch of no-hopers
    - IDIOCRACY
      
      Hey you started with the comment that we are freeloaders that should get away from the keyboard and get a job, I just pointed out that you are wrong there, we play outside with our kids in nature (if available) and let our nmachines do the downloading (if applicable) For the jobless you might refer to…. getting a job can be done best nowadays from behind the keyboard moron…
      Oh yeah you never heard of most job offers are to be found on-line. So in both cases you stated in your comment you give the wrong advice / information…
      As someone else already said…. you need to take your medicine or get a real education… you might end up earning what I do… hehe…
    - PelouzeTF
      
      “Hey you started with the comment that we are freeloaders that should get away from the keyboard and get a job, I just pointed out that you are wrong there, we play outside with our kids in nature (if available) and let our nmachines do the downloading (if applicable)”
      
      Naturally, I’m sure you’ve polled a good cross section of pirates and indeed discovered that the majority spend their days playing outside with their kids while their PC downloads. If for example thats what you do, fine…… but speaking for everyone and attempting to present that as fact….pure fantasy and quite the lie. If you’re going to pull something out of your ass, at least make it vaguely believable.
      
      “For the jobless you might refer to…. getting a job can be done best nowadays from behind the keyboard moron…Oh yeah you never heard of most job offers are to be found on-line. So in both cases you stated in your comment you give the wrong advice / information…”
      
      If you had the slightest clue of what you’re talking about, you’d know that over 60% of real jobs are actually found via networking. Securing a real job online counts for less than 5% of people to those offered positions.
      
      The fact the you refer to “job offers” is very telling. Who gives a crap what is offered online that never reaches fruition. Jeez, there are billions of car ads online too but the overwhelming majority of car purchases happen offline. Same with jobs ;) I’m sure many people will be lining up to thank you for the incorrect advice and information on how to get a real job though, most helpful.
      
      “As someone else already said…. you need to take your medicine or get a real education… you might end up earning what I do… hehe…”
      
      Earn what you do ? Unless you’re going to release your EOY tax returns you’re pulling things out of your butt again. It’s an unprovable that your using to somehow appear more impressive than you really are. I’m sure you’re aware, it’s the people who often have very little that generally succumb to the temptation to embellish, right ??
      
      The fact that you haven’t even performed basic research to back up your statements here, leads me to believe that whatever it is that you do do, you’re not exactly detail oriented about it’s execution. Hopefully, It’s an occupation where very little is at stake lol. Of course, I’m sure you’re also aware by now that not only do you appear to be a liar but if you also earn a good income as you claim you do, you’re a cheap ass….great qualities my friend.
    - president
      
      You need to take more antipsychotics. There really isn’t much else that can be done for someone with delusional psychosis.
    - utuxia
      
      sure, there are lots of good medications out these days.
    - We Happy, You Not
      
      Puff, I suppose that “somebody” teaches that,
      but downloading and uploading
      it’s what people usually do by instinct,
      when they meet the internet.
    - Liam JH
      
      Unlike the MPAA who sit behind a pc throwing unfounded allegations of theft at anyone who uses a pc.
    - platyourpus
      
      Hey there pelouse,how are your buddies bobmail and nonamethanks going.
      I hope there health and finances are in good order.
      OK carry on trolling.
    - Film
      
      nonamethanks is just bobmail, nobody else.
    - platyourpus
      
      My mistake,you may be right,thank’s for the heads up.
    - One-Eyed Willie
      
      That is why you have to kill them all. That is why you call it WAR! There are no rules in a real war. The laws simply do not apply. This is a war for our fundamental rights of freedom. We cannot lose or all is lost.
  - dondilly
    
    $2.4m and he has the nerve to accuse us of robbing the film industry.
    - realist
      
      Google made 40 billion and Google Chairman Eric Schmidt Got a $101 Million Pay Package In 2011.
    - shrapnel
      
      . funny. you guys that think that the “entertainment” business of yesterday *is* the Internet are pretty fucking stupid.
  - GP
    
    Where do I sign, meatbag?
- U.S. Reality
  
  Sign: I can’t find work
  
  Congressman: Cheer up! Whenever I’m feeling low, I like to vote myself a big, fat pay raise!
  - boral
    
    Very very true.
- Nasty
  
  “And the Hollywood fat cats are laughing all the way to the bank” Until we start killing them that is.
Guest

this reminds me of the famous meme picture where a bunch of old rich people laughing
ken147

Damnit……
Typhoid Mary

That’s nothing more than an access fee to the politicians in Washington. I may not be technically corrupt, but it does smell that way.

What we do know is Washington is corrupt so its not hard to assume the worst.
- marxmarv
  
  Occam’s Razor favors simple corruption and class cohesion as an explanation over such complicated, unreliable narratives as “ineffective Democrats” (who are proven quite effective with respect to the 1%) or “if only they knew” (when they could have and should have known, and often clearly do know, but are indifferent).
  - TheScrote
    
    SHUT YOUR FACE AND STOP OVERUSING PARENTHESES YOU PRETENTIOUS CUNT.
    - ScrewEwe2
      
      His parentheses are fine. Your message in all Caps is what is pretentious.
    - TheCunt
      
      lol your name is great.
    - ScrewEwe2
      
      Thank You Sir,…. Uhhh Mam?
Loki

Crime DOES pay.
- Gmail
  
  Yeah, just ask Kimmie
  - Anyone
    
    offering cloud storage is not a crime
    
    bribing politicians however is
    of course, if you are also bribing judges, prosecutors, etc. that crime won’t get punished, but it is still a crime
    - Guest
      
      Nothing is a crime for the ones that control those who write the laws.
    - Anon
      
      It’s more about the naysayers rolling in dough at the expense of those who contribute. Doubt anyone in MPAA has done a day of real work or created a single track of music. They just rob from others.
    - marxmarv
      
      They did get started for the purpose of breaking Thomas Edison’s movie camera patents…
    - TheScrote
      
      FUCK OFF.
    - Wade R
      
      It not called bribing, its befriending the politician until he thinks your a philanthropist.
  - IDIOCRACY
    
    raikkonen?? :P
    (speeding makes you rich hehe)
Mark

what a bunch of fags

so their profit goes up and they still want more

hungry pigs
- Gmail
  
  You want more as well, don’t lie to yourself at night.
  - Screw
    
    I actually don’t want more money. I want rights. Privacy. Freedom (the true one, not the American one).
  - FixYa
    
    Ad hominem.
  - marxmarv
    
    Perhaps, but a) corporations are not people unless you can punch them in the mouth b) those of us who are not sociopathic college kids trolling for dollars understand the meaning of “enough”.
  - UraPhake
    
    I want more pussy,
    If you want more dick, that’s your prerogative.
    - The_Strawbear
      
      Why not both?
    - UraPhake
      
      Sounds like your department.
  - anon
    
    You’re right we both want way more cocks in our mouths. Wanna tinycam?
- Grips
  
  They are all but hungry.
Dude

And they say piracy effects sales. Greedy pricks.
- Gmail
  
  They took down megaupload and their revenue increases… sure seems like it helped.
  - Anyone
    
    you must have read the wrong study
  - johnson
    
    Their revenue increased in 2011, and they took down MU in 2012. Must be time travel.
    - utuxia
      
      Their revenue increased because there are more legitimate ways to get content now over the web. They didn’t get on board with that until about 2 years ago.
  - The_Doorman
    
    Correlation does not equal causation.
    
    But there is not even any correlation – Megaupload was taken offline in 2012, this tax filing is from 2011.
    
    This strikes me as one understanding which should be required in order to post a comment online. (just one of the many understandings which should be required IMHO…)
  - FixYa
    
    He’s just trolling, after megaupload was shutdown
    people started to upload almost the same
    to other file lockers the same week.
  - marxmarv
    
    Or, they got some extra money so decided to pop MegaUpload with it…
Guest

That smile on his face will surely be wiped off when Dotcom sues his ass.
http://twitter.com/Effec_Tor Effector

Disgusting.
Ardvaark

“We do it for the artists!”

-MPAA
- Internet_Zen_Master
  
  Actually, that’s the RIAA’s line.
  
  The MPAA’s is: “We do it for the actors, er, I mean produ-uh, grocery store clerks!”
Freedom

“Despite the extra income, the MPAA reduced its number of employees from 247 to 205 in a year. However, the group didn’t cut back on total employee compensation which rose from $21.7 to $24.5 in the same time frame, with 10% going to MPAA boss Chris Dodd.”

This says it all. Welcome to “Corporate America”: where the filthy rich get filthier and richer, all at the expense of the citizenry, literally AND figuratively.
- http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
  
  Which is the reason why those big payouts for upper-management should be required to be approved by a 95% vote of stockholders.
  
  Anything under 1 million per year would be okay.
- thisguy1337
  
  And so many proudly say God bless america while we have our young soldiers off defending our foreign oil wells. (It’s ours because it was part of the treaty for usa rebuilding them, look it up)
sharms

Bunch of morons !
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1153420605 Mark Van Pelt

scumbags
frozar

He just sits up in his private jet wining and dining lawmakers. We probably know more about the state of copyright than he does. Only in the corporate world does the mascot make more money than the players and coaches.
- marxmarv
  
  As much as you would love to belittle him as a stooge, if anything he’s the team manager, he knows his mandate, and he’s playing on the field that matters: power.
anonymous

Dodd is spending the ill-gotten gains from the likes of Thomas-Rasset and Tenanbaum. shame the favour cant be returned! as for the ‘growing again’, does anyone really think they had stopped? they were earning every year, just not declaring it, thanks to their own way of ‘accounting’
- bobmail
  
  “Dodd is spending the ill-gotten gains from the likes of Thomas-Rasset and Tenanbaum”
  
  You understand that in both cases, not a penny has been paid yet? Do you understand how full of shit you are?
  - IDIOCRACY
    
    You forget that the convictions are used as an example to settle in other cases and to extort people with settlement letters….so who is the dummy here now…. hehe
sharms

Old farts who know nothing about technology and simply want to take control over the internet for their own nefarious power. “It is now easier to kill a million people than to control a million people.” Make no mistake, this is about control over the people. Monitor their every move.
http://www.facebook.com/forkingham.melle Forkingham Melle

a slap on the back to the man who says that file sharing doesn’t pay. meanwhile,,,,,, behind the scenes, money is exchanged in secret, to sway decisions the courts will have no say in, money is not talking here, it is shouting, something like, look at me, i am building a new institution that will in the future rule the web-waves and control most media channels by hook or by crook, so fuck you lot out there
KiRE

good, now he can purchase many dildos to go fuck himself with.
- The_Doorman
  
  You, sir, made me LOL.
Fantastic

“which is a direct result of an increase in membership dues from the movie studios”

Another one of the keys to why they are against the internet since its content creators (webshows) don’t pay them a dime.
nono

One must love the photo you chose to illustrate that article :)
Matt

So he’s profiting from piracy? …
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ScrewEwe2

All politicians or military officers like generals, etc., should be barred by law from taking any job after they leave office, like lobbying, or any other job where they can influence current politicians or other governmental agencies. Christopher Dodd didn’t get hired to head the MPAA because of what he knows, but who he knows. The American political system is corrupt and broken.
- marxmarv
  
  I agree. Pay ‘em $150k/yr to STFU and STFD, permanently, mandatorily with 100% retroactive restitution if they are ever caught with their fingers in the pie. But the US has always been an aristocracy, and aristocracies don’t work like that.
Boring Phil

That’s 42 possibly-disgruntled former employees…
- Violated0
  
  One way to see the MPAA lose power would be to convince their employees to quit. Maybe not an easy task when anyone willingly working for the MPAA must be quite a fascist to begin with.
  - Boring Phil
    
    42 disgruntled fascists? UKIP got started on fewer…
Kristina Svartholm

Quote:”MPAA Revenue Grows, Chris Dodd Gets $2.4 Million”

Chris Dodd gets a fucking kick up the ass from me. He laughing all the way into hell (in that photo posted in this article).
- ItsTheSasquatch
  
  He probably has a team of bodyguards with him at all times. You know, armed with the kind of weapons they don’t want the poor to be allowed to own, possibly the full-auto and/or short-barreled kind they’ve already barred us from possessing. The guy came out on live TV and openly admitted to bribing congress, after all; a hell of a lot of people want to do a hell of a lot worse than just kick his ass, and he knows it.
  - Simo Hayha
    
    Sniper rifle ;-)
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Anon22

‘Cash for Laws’ should be investigated and those involved sent to prison.

Safeguards to stop this happening are in place but not being used.
- marxmarv
  
  If you do that, who’s left to send them to prison? The US was founded by, of and for aristocrats. Of course, that’s confidential Outer Party doctrine; the workers must never be allowed to know this, which is one of the reasons for a separate vo-tech educational track. Liberal arts in the hands of those not aligned with wealth are dangerous.
  
  Safeguards? Fox watching the hen house.
  - TheScrote
    
    LRN2 READ COCKSUCKER.
bobmail

Nice hit piece. Based on the 40 comments so far, it did a very good job of misrepresenting things in a way that makes the local choir boys and toadies angry.

MPAA’s income increased, yes, but only because of increased membership dues, not because of any great increases in income. Movie revenue (gross) did tick up slightly in 2012, but not in fiscal 2011. Rather, increases happen because the MPAA basically upped the dues, to help to pay for the legal issues.

They aren’t busy spending lawsuit gains on the backs of artists or anything like that. Why would anyone think that? Oh wait, because the story is written to suggest it, without saying it!

Oh, and 2.4 million a year to run an industry group isn’t really far off the mark.

Nice hit piece. You certainly have stirred up the monkeys.
- markh
  
  2.4 million is not much to run a company, I think you are the biggest monkey in believing that is a normal sum to earn in world recession
  - marxmarv
    
    Trolling for dollars is at least marginally more respectable than working a call center.
  - bobmail
    
    I don’t think a world recession suddenly diminishes someone’s value. A != B.
    - BuddhaFacePalmed
      
      Of course not, but if a company was not doing well, the CEO is not supposed to take a pay raise after firing his employees.
    - IDIOCRACY
      
      Hey Bobby, you do understand algebra? so you DO understand that Downloading != Stealing but Downloading = Legal (in a lot of countries) hehe
  - TheScrote
    
    RU CALLING HIM A NIGER
- Anyone
  
  2.4 million is quite a lot if you produce nothing of value
  
  also, that is 2.4 millions that are basically stolen from the artists (due to Hollywood accounting and other dirty tricks), this is actual real harm, not like the made up numbers that the MAFIAA likes to spout what piracy is supposedly costing them
  
  if Hollywood would adapt to the 21st century and stop paying these bottom feeders everyone would be better off
  - bobmail
    
    MPAA is supported by movie studios paying dues. There is no “steal from artists”, where do you get that lie from?
    - Anyone
      
      it’s not a lie
      
      that money that the MPAA siphons from the studios is an actual loss for the artists
    - IDIOCRACY
      
      yeah but bobby has lost his last braincell years ago so he cannot see the slightest form of logic. You know why some people have one braincell more than a cow?? I will tell you…. then they will not pee and shit in the kitchen…. Bobby uses independ slips hehe.
    - Guest321
      
      Bobby will only see some logic & hopefully grow a braincell when he gets fired from the MPAA roster next year just like the 42 other employees so that Chris Dodd can make $3 mills next year.
    - bobmail
      
      Ummm, wow. You are lacking in a grasp on reality, aren’t you? Do you have anything to back up your wild claims? I doubt it, you are just spewing the usual anti-copyright jizz.
    - IDIOCRACY
      
      Bobby clearly has no sense of humor and lacks the ability to understand irony or sarcasm… that makes him so good at making us laugh, oh the lack of braincells to understand logic might help a lot there too.
      hehe
- Janelle
  
  U Mad Bro?Do you really think 2.4 million to run an industry group is an appropriate wage? Really? I think something in our society needs to change when people think that that high of a wage is a good fit for that job type.
- IDIOCRACY
  
  Woehaha I wet my pants again, you are so funny sir…. I can (euh do) actually run an industry group for less than 10% of that, and do a better job….hehe
  Not far off the mark, you have lived too long amongst the other nutcases the mental home you reside in.. hehe
- platyourpus
  
  There you are bob,I was getting a little worried about you,pardon me now i’m off to eat a banana.
downunder

having salaries like that is plain criminal .. no one is worth that not even bill gates or a PM… some guy breaking his back digging up roads for $400 in a hand a week verse someone sitting in a office having meetings and adding no worth to the world for over 6,500 a day!
- marxmarv
  
  They add worth to *their* world. Just because they get it by harvesting Eloi doesn’t change the fact.
JerkfaceMcGee

That’s a lot of money for sucking cock.
FrampSamp

lol, that dude just looks corrupt as the day is long, guess he is laughing all the way to the bank though lol.

Anon-Web.da.bz
wargamer1969

Meanwhile VPN service requests have skyrocketed in the last week…
- TheScrote
  
  GET A FREEONE ASSHOLE.
  - Janelle
    
    uhhh….. where exactly did wargamer1969 say to get a paid one?
    - TheCunt
      
      I pay for prostitutes does that count?
  - Bucket
    
    Nothing is free, asshole. Never forget that.
UraPhake

Chris Dodd should be paid in the following manner:

1) Items needed:
[A] 2.4 million dollars in one-dollar bills.
[B] One long-necked 1-inch circumference funnel.
[C] One 3/4-inch circumference by 2-foot length of rough, wooden
dowel rod.

2) Procedural method:
[A] Shove funnel in Dodd’s ass.
[B] Place a single, one-dollar bill on end of wooden dowel.
[C] Cram dowel and one-dollar bill though funnel until resistance from
internal organs is met.
[D] Repeat 2,399,999 times.

Optional: Soak bills in lighter fluid before insertion. Upon reaching last bill, ignite and insert same as all previous bills.
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Banked he did

And where are the royalties to the artists wait in his bank account
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Violated0

Well the demise of the MPAA was little more than a statistical joke anyway so seeing some fresh blood pumped into this unhealthy beast is not such a big surprise.

The biggest surprise is that they have not fired that lame turkey named Chris Dodd yet who gloriously failed to get SOPA and PIPA to pass, did critical damage to ACTA, and then insulted the whole of Congress by telling them all to be good little corrupted politicians who should work to earn their bribe money!

What I find most sick about this one is that here they are pumping in money to annoy hundreds of millions of people what with their usual market bullying, political bribery and attempted fracturing of the Internet while the studios behind the MPAA are not even keeping their own house in order.

I of course refer to VFX studios who are one of the special effects companies and who these movie production companies are forcing to complete projects in half the time, forcing employees to work much longer hours and of course for seriously less money. One step away from slave labour if you ask me but here they are wasting money on other things.

Funny how big movie productions now have record budgets up to $250 million but here they are starving the SFX.
http://imgur.com/gallery/71h8J
Janelle

Absolutely disgusting. Just makes me sick. Pulling 2.4 million, and here I am with a great education, diagnosing cancer and making around 50,000(not complaining its pretty darn good salary). I just wish these peoples wages were more in line with the work and responsibility they have. Tired of seeing celebrities, ceo’s, and company fat cats bringing in this type of money……….. I don’t want to live on this planet anymore. grrr
- ScrewEwe2
  
  The MPAA is a cancer.
  - platyourpus
    
    Very true,and the MAFIAA is a malignant cancer.
- ITakeAPotatoChipAndEatIt
  
  ^ This requires so many up-votes.
Guest

Remind me again – exactly when have enforcement efforts and groups benefited artists? When have the fees from settlements and lawsuits resulted in stolen money being returned to artists or studios?

How the fuck is it that for at least a decade now, the industries are “starving”, “dying” or “ravaged by piracy” – and still manage to line the pockets of Chris Dodd with so much green stuff?
- ScrewEwe2
  
  As referenced in a recent TorrentFreak article, “In 2012 North American movie theaters showed more movies than ever before, and for the first time in history domestic box office grosses surpassed $10.7 billion.”
  
  http://torrentfreak.com/pirates-hollywood-sets-10-billion-box-office-record-121231/
  
  It’s not so much about Hollywood’s profits or losses, it’s about control.
F-OFFChris Dodd

Chris Dodd is a crook behind the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac disaster !!. An this Idiot makes a healthy income of more than $2.4 million a year and tell us we can’t share files ! Chris Dodd and the MPAA can go F-OFF !!!
lmao_raider

“During his first year Dodd received a little over $2.4 million in compensation.”

Compensation for what?!?
- frozar
  
  Big big Rolodex. Former Senators make the best lobbyists.
- Anyone
  
  telling what politicians are the most open for bribes
boral

Piracy brings uniformity among economic condition of people ….. and MPAA brings non-uniformity in economic condition of people ———- Proved once again.
ItsTheSasquatch

If you’re looking for the source of America’s high violent crime rate, you just found it–people like Chris Dodd, making millions for doing nothing but undermining the constitution, while people who do real work can’t afford healthcare. Or rent.

Kill yourself, Chris. It won’t make up for what you’ve done, but it’s a ****ing start.
- bobmail
  
  Actually, if you are looking for the source of America’s high violent crime rate, you just found it–people like ItsTheSasquatch. You are so busy being jealous of the other guy that you can’t bother to make yourself better.
  
  Stop worrying about how much Chris Dodd makes. You should be more worried about your own life and your own good.
  
  PS: Fat Kim made 30 million a year… why aren’t you calling his ass out?
  - BuddhaFacePalmed
    
    because “Fat Kim” actually ran a business. As far as I can tell, Chris Dodd did nothing else except moan “Pirates are stealing all our monies. I live in the poor house now. Our government should do more than just jail pirates.”
    - bobmail
      
      Because “Fat Kim” made his money ripping people off.
      
      Chris Dodd said no such thing, show me the quote. Oh wait, you are full of shit, do you have no way to show it.
      
      How does it feel to be a truly lying sack of shit?
    - BuddhaFacePalmed
      
      You wouldn’t know hyperbole if it slapped you with a rotten whale. Besides, there’s no difference from what i said to “Piracy is stealing American jobs, American ideas, and American products from criminal foreign sites.”
    - IDIOCRACY
      
      I could ask you? so …bobby how does it feel..?
      hehe
robthom

Thanks obama
TheyLieAndCheat

This disccussion is the reason ‘they’ want to control the internet.
conscience.EAC.FLAC.torrent

The more morally corrupt the job, the higher the salary must be. You need big amounts of cash to shut up someone’s conscience. True in any industry.
InternetBrianShrink

Naturally, my rage at this news is so intense that only horse-doses of laudanum are preventing my age-withered carcass from stiffening with fury. Why must people persist in their senseless natterings concerning the world into which they are born in pain and confusion, only to die in like fashion 40 or 50 years thereafter?
Guest

FUCK YOU MAFIAA we will continue to share.
Fuckem

The “morally bankrupt” have no problem squashing others for their own
gain. There are few consequences for such actions since the “morally
bankrupt” create the laws as well. The problem is not with this asshat. A high percentage of people are selfish assholes and always will be, The problem is with the governments providing the “place to feed” for the bottom feeders. The governments enable these peckers by allowing them to pay off politicians to get the laws massaged to help them see more profit. If it’s open to corruption, then it will become corrupt. Having been in the politics game, this joker has friends and knows loopholes and now it’s getting him paid. I couldn’t do this clown’s job even if I was good at it because I’m just not sleazy enough and I like sleeping at night.

The governments MAKE it more profitable to lobby the government then it is to actually make new products or improve existing products. So why would a company go the route that is less profitable? They never will as long as the system is the way it is. And why would the government change the system? They never will because it’s more profitable for the government employees to leave it the way it is. It won’t change, the rich will get richer until the poor refuse to do their jobs anymore.

So, in conclusion, I don’t give a fuck how much he gets paid. Fuck him. He’s a piece of shit.
- Who
  
  the other problem is now that do to Obama’s government cut backs there are now less IRS officials reviewing tax filings so a lot of cheating will now be over looked. even tho this has been happening for years, its gona get much more frequent now.
- bobmail
  
  “The “morally bankrupt” have no problem squashing others for their own gain.”
  
  You have just described the business model of almost every piracy site.
  
  Congrats!
  - IDIOCRACY
    
    You have to explain that because you make no sense…how is offering information for free on a website (you call them piracy site), morally bankrupt. I think you have lost track of the understanding of English long ago…How can ever be offering something for free, being morally bankrupt… calling that so is in fact morally bankrupt… ever read the Bible or Koran or Teachings of Buddha??? guess not..
    hehe
  - Fuckem
    
    I’m not seeing it… where’s the correlation? I’m going to need the analogy spelled out for me, please.
  - Jack Ryan
    
    Fool.
Who

how much ya wana bet they wrote off a shit load of movies as losses and also used them as itemized deductions to get that much of a return.
http://www.facebook.com/alexandria.quander Alexandria Quander

all this so called anti-piracy is all about getting rich not protecting the artists,corporate greed in the usa at its best,the only place on earth where corruption is actively encouraged with bonuses
- hashem
  
  Yep. American corporations write the law not only in the USA but also for the entire world (thanks to international trade agreements). Help spread awareness for a new bill to limit this though: http://unitedrepublic.actionkit.com/event/cosponsor/8588/
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USAwillcollapse

USA sucks bad. You are either a corrupt piece of shit criminal terrorist or an inbred ignorant idiot. These are the only two different types of americunts. USA will collapse and I CAN’T WAIT!!!!
- ItsTheSasquatch
  
  So… you’re insulting all the US posters here, too? Just because they’re from the US? What a ****ing bigot.
  - deletemycommentagainassholes
    
    yea I am insulting all americans why? because for years how many fucking times does the rest of the world have to hear about how “great” the USA is? so really, you’re the fucking bigot and I CAN’T WAIT TILL THE USA COLLAPSES, WHY? BECAUSE THERE IS NOTHING BUT FUCKING CORRUPT CRIMINAL TERRORIST THERE!!! and then and finally then, the world will have FREEDOM and PEACE……..
    - Everyone
      
      Wow. What a douchebag. Where are you from? I want to make sweeping insults directed at the rest of your country, simply because of your pathetic behaviour.
    - gb
      
      You should be reducing that list, not increasing it. But yes, please be aware that it is some americans and mostly the governments that we speak of, stop being so touchy, well, unless your one of those “some” americans
    - ItsTheSasquatch
      
      You must have come in after his comments were deleted. He was quite clear that he was insulting -all- americans, claiming the only people who existed in the country were corrupt rich people and “inbred hicks.” He reiterated this several times.
  - yankee doodle dandy
    
    OMG!! that’s the pot calling the kettle black if I have ever seen it. A yankee calling somebody a bigot because they hate americans………… LMAO but it is alright for you dumbass americans to constantly tell the rest of the world that america is #1 and all the other horse shit LMAO, I have seen it all now!!!
    - Your Mother
      
      Insulting an entire country for the behavior of a miniscule percentage of their population doesn’t make you look smart. It makes you look like an uneducated jackass.
  - Haha
    
    LOL, Karma’s a bitch, isn’t it? hahahaaaaaaaa
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sickofUSA

America, Fuck Yeah!!! NO, NO, NO!!! It’s America, FUCK YOU!!!
bioglassmusic

I could do his job 400 times better for 1/50th the salary
Luke Darth

“May the force never be with you” MPAA as the only thing you do is sue your customers and ignore there wishes on which movies should be released and re-released. Then you censor them and destroy there original glory.
hugo

someone should punish the rich fag -.-
zakaia kira

http://www.proxymain.com is New proxymain site!
john doe

2.4 million to pay a guy to bust file sharers. Is Hollywood really making any money or just hurting their own market? LOL
john doe

What is sad is that people think that pirating music affects thousands of people and the entire music industry. It doesn’t. It only effect two sets of people. First the singers, and secondly the executives of the record lablel. There is nobody in between there. The song writers get a lump sum for their songs. So in reality, the extremely rich are losing out a little bit of money. Like these people need anymore money anyways, they are already extremely rich. The exec’s get what 95% of all the profits? The singer is the one who loses out some, but they make all their money up doing concerts anyways. The MPAA is a joke and is only hurting the industry.
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