Tonight, we should all pirate a movie Options

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In honor of the late piece of shit Jack Valenti.

Fuck that bitch for being a primary proponent of the DMCA. Not to mention the MPAA, which has obscure and anonymous rating systems that keep the major media corporations happy.

Jack Valenti, Hollywood's Lobbyist, Dies at Age 85

Jack Valenti, the former aide to President Lyndon Johnson who became Hollywood's top lobbyist, devised its movie-rating system and fought for trade concessions and copyright protection, died today in Washington. He was 85.

Valenti, hospitalized since last month after suffering a stroke, returned home yesterday from Johns Hopkins University Medical Center, family spokesman Rich Taylor said in a telephone interview.

With his silvery mane, dapper dress and florid speech, Valenti was a colorful fixture in Washington and Los Angeles. Global audiences came to know him from his onstage appearances at the televised Academy Awards.

Valenti ran his own Houston agency until he was thrust into a White House job overnight following John F. Kennedy's assassination. He was riding in the Dallas motorcade on Nov. 22, 1963, at the behest of Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, because Valenti's smooth advance work in Houston had pleased the presidential party the previous day.

After leaving politics, Valenti spent the next 38 years as president of the Motion Picture Association of America. He stepped down from the post shortly before his 83rd birthday in September 2004, but he didn't retire from the public eye.

Within days, he traveled to Paris to accept a French Legion of Honor rosette, and continued to oversee the MPAA's movie rating system during a transition period for his successor, Dan Glickman, a former Congressman and secretary of Agriculture in the Clinton administration.

``Jack was a showman, a gentleman, an orator and a passionate champion of this country, its movies and the enduring freedoms that made both so important to this world,'' Glickman said in an e-mailed statement. ``He also embodied the theatricality of our industry with his conviction, quick wit and boundless energy.''

National Tragedy

Valenti accepted a new job in 2004 as president of Friends of the Global Fight, a non-profit organization dedicated to raising money for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. With his showman's flair, he enlisted two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks to narrate a documentary to spur fund raising.

Valenti's shift into politics was born of a national tragedy. Hours after Kennedy was fatally shot, Valenti was summoned to accompany Johnson to Washington aboard Air Force One. He appears in the background of a famous photograph as Johnson was sworn in to office next to a distraught Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

Valenti served as Johnson's appointments secretary until he accepted the MPAA post in 1966. In each job, he served powerful bosses but thrived with disciplined habits and his capacity for work.

He wrote five books, including 1976's ``A Very Human President,'' a memoir about Johnson; and ``Speak Up with Confidence,'' a how-to book that assured readers that ``the secret of speaking well is discipline -- work, preparation.''

If his own speeches were baroque, they had the desired effect of holding an audience. Listeners were alternately dazzled by his choice of words, or amused by lines that approached self-parody.

Valenti told the Washington Post in 2004 that he strove to ``dress up my positions in language that was memorable.''

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DING DONG THE BITCH IS DEAD

[impala454]

yeah... screw people who try to uphold the american dream and protect and evolve our nation's copyright laws. also screw people who promote programs which let parents have an inkling of the material which is in games & movies that their kids play & watch. screw those assholes!