Why MPAA warning also present in 80s movies?
The following notice is usually present in movies:
This motion picture is protected under the laws of the United States and other countries. Any unauthorized reproduction, distribution, or exhibition of this motion picture or any part thereof including the soundtrack may result in severe civil and criminal penalties.
Any unauthorized reproduction, distribution which means related to piracy.
But camera recordings and BluRay/DVD piracy started in the 21st century. Then why is this MPAA warning also present in 80s movies?
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Piracy started before internet sharing, in the vhs underground market, stolen film etc.
William Friedkin in his autobiography talk about some cinema that had "The exorcist" without buying it by distribotur. After that someone made vhs of the movie and started to sell them.
All this in 1973. So it's normal that MPAA put the warning.
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Why does the MPAA exist?
Founded in 1922 as the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA) and known as the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) from 1945 until September 2019, its original goal was to ensure the viability of the American film industry.What was the first film to be rated R?
\u201cGreetings\u201d (1968) was the first R-rated U.S. film. \u201cRed Dawn\u201d (1984) was the first PG-13 movie.Why are some movies not rated?
If a film has not been submitted for a rating or is an uncut version of a film that was submitted, the labels Not Rated (NR) or Unrated (UR) are often used.How long has the MPAA been around?
The rating board is fast approaching an impressive 30,000 films rated since 1968. Over its 50-year history, the MPAA has rated a total of 29,791 films.Why Movie Ratings Don't Make Sense: Bias in the MPAA
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Intellectual piracy probably started just after the first cave artist put charcoal to stone. Cracks me up when people think that nothing existed before they came of age.
If you check out the PBS documentary on the "Ulfbert" sword, from the Viking era (that was made of much higher quality steel than other weapons available), you'll see that archaeologists and historians have also found lower-quality knock-offs, initially identified because the engraved "Ulfbert" was spelled differently. So, this kind of piracy has been going on for thousands of years, literally, in whatever format you can possibly imagine.
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