MPAA accused of motion picture piracy

The Motion Picure Ass. of America stands accused of breaking its own piracy guidelines after it admitted making unauthorised copies of a film submitted to it for classification.

The accuser is film director Kirby Dick who sent a copy of his documentary "This Film Is Not Yet Rated" to the MPAA back in November.

The film puts the work of the MPAA in the spotlight, accusing it of being too hard on sex, too soft on violence and publicly unaccountable. For its part, the MPAA reckons the film-maker's methods, allegedly involving rooting through MPAA's members dustbins and generally following them about, were a bit underhand.

According to the MPAA's own website, "Manufacturing, selling, distributing or making copies of motion pictures without the consent of the copyright owner is illegal."