MPAA fires back at Wikipedia’s Wales over online piracy

Found on The Hill on Friday, 13 July 2012
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“Our studios are constantly partnering and innovating new ways for audiences to watch the movies and TV shows they love: Hulu, HBO Go, Vudu, Crackle, UltraViolet, Epix, MUBI – and that just barely scratches the surface,” said Kate Bedingfield, a spokeswoman at the MPAA. “There are more legitimate avenues available today to watch movies and TV shows online than ever before, and our studios are continuing to innovate every day to bring audiences even more options.”

“At the end of the day, stealing shows and movies out of convenience still harms the people who work hard to make them,” Bedingfield added.

Wales told reporters Thursday that he had trouble accessing the latest season of the HBO series “Game of Thrones” at home in London even though he was willing to pay for it.

Go cry me a river Kate. You cannot really expect customers to sign up with dozens of services and paying each of them a monthly fee just to watch the one or two interesting shows they offer. There are more "legitimate avenues" (which is easy since there were none before), but that does not mean they offer the service the customers want. It's useless to argue with Mrs Bedingfield anyway since she even cannot understand the simple difference between stealing and copying; but then that can very well be planned too. After all you probably learn these things in the White House Communications Office where she worked before joining the MPAA.