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  • Digital piracy of movies is 'wrong,' college students chided [by -- ugh -- Jack Valenti]

    02/26/2003 10:54:57 AM PST · by GeneD · 68 replies · 492+ views
    Cox News Service ^ | 02/26/2003 | Nora Achrati
    WASHINGTON -- As part of an uphill battle against Internet movie piracy, entertainment industry lobbyist Jack Valenti offered university students a lesson in morality Tuesday. "Too many students don't believe it's wrong to steal these movies," Valenti told students at Georgetown University Law Center. "It is fracturing the moral contract to take something that does not belong to you." The appearance was one of several that the president of the Motion Picture Association of America plans at prominent universities over the next few months. Students are among the heaviest online traffickers of illegally copied material. Since the late 1990s, a...