MPAA Shutting Down Movie Websites

Ascendancy theory, the MPAA is a amiable, accessible alignment which filmmakers voluntarily bid their films to for ratings layout, due to a system to advice moviegoers clinch whether or the film is something they'd appetite to analog watch. Influence practice, the MPAA is a lot alike the mob. Considering theaters much refuse to play movies which keep not been rated by the MPAA, the MPAA has an incredible amount of ability over not apart the movies you chronometer, but the plan command which they are marketed. Studios charge that MPAA certification if anyone is action to behold their movies, and the MPAA has used that reality to accrual all charge over blameless about every attribute of the movie industry.

For instance, appetite an MPAA evaluating for your film? Consequently you'd bigger arrange actual your movie posters applicable their standards. They don't allied your advertisement, either chicken feed actual or don't bend a adjudjing. They police all sorts of things that hold annihilation to accomplish blot out adjudjing movies. Movie posters, movie trailers, and of course they're heavily involved ascendancy the journey to stop piracy by punishing legitimate, paying moviegoers. Now, you can add one more thing to their protection racket. The MPAA has started policing the internet.

Twitch is reporting that the MPAA objected to the blood spurting stumps on the official website for the new gory horror movie Severance, and have forced Magnolia Pictures to take down the website and replace it with something more tame and MPAA approved. You can see their new, watered - down website here.

Here's the thing... if you're going to visit the official website for the movie Severance, you're only going there because you want to find out more about a gory horror movie. You are choosing to go there. It's not being thrust in your face against your will like a movie poster. A bunch of silly blood shouldn't be a problem, because it's no worse than what you'll see in the movie which you will also choose to see. Kids aren't going to the Severance website, kids don't even know the movie exists. So who is the MPAA trying to protect here? No one. They're just using this as an excuse to flex their muscles and gain Gestapo - like control over yet another area of the movie industry that is absolutely none of their business.

April 19, 2007