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MPAA Said To Be Close To Naming New Chairman

After almost a year of searching, the MPAA is reported to be close to naming a new chairman to replace Dan Glickman. Although the MPAA have refused to comment on the news, former Democratic senator Chris Dodd is believed to be hot favorite for the position.

Dodd campaigned to run for president in 2008 so his plethora of government contacts will be extremely useful to the MPAA.

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  • http://disqus.com/ Rob8urcakes

    He’s a Democrat, so he’ll be for freedom of speech, freedom of information exchange, freedom to share for free any digital files we please without being threatened by a lawsuit, and he’ll no doubt convince ALL the studios that the current law of copyright is so wrong and needs to be replaced with a freedom of the artist to hold and distribute their work how they see fit without being jailed by a contract limiting their every breath.

    Go Dan, and don’t let us down – because we bite, and it’ll be sore too.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PXX4S66KOUIGIKTTIMV3CBGO7Y Colin

      Meanwhile Rob, back in the real world… ;-(

    • sherboil

      It must be nice to live in your own reality.

  • politux

    Allow me to be the first to tell the Democrat party to take a long walk off a short pier.

  • Watcher

    Even Democrats pander to big companies. He failed at presidency, this just means he owes the companies that supported him something.

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  • Momo

    Democrat or Republican party, they both love the same corporations’ rainbow parties. They are both exactly the same, horrifyingly the same, and there’s no doubt the former senator in question will lobby hard to keep the old-world media industry in power.

  • Anonymous

    Any U.S. politician is corrupted by the bizarre lobbying system that exists.

    $3.47 Billion spent lobbying.. sorry.. $3.47 Billion spent BUYiNG laws and regulations.

    http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/

    The Senate bill:

    1. bars lobbyists themselves from buying gifts and meals for legislators, but it leaves a big loophole: firms and organizations represented by those lobbyists may still dole out freebies;

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbying_in_the_United_States

    Dodd the corupt : ?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countrywide_financial_political_loan_scandal

  • wildfire

    their you go he was promised a job with them if he would help ram and stop us from using the internet the way they don’t like for us to. he will get to some of his cronies that are still in office and say i can get you a job and here is the keys to that new car or a bank account with numbers in it. this is how our capital people work and live thier.
    i think any member of our goverment should have to wait ten years for the job like that as how can you do your job fair and open minded as you have to jeep them happy or goodbye job. i need to get into politics so i can grab me a cushy job.

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