Law & Order: Glickman edition

Much of Dan Glickman’s first year on the job as president of the Motion Picture Association of America has been devoted to fighting film piracy, which costs Hollywood $3.5 billion a year. And the former congressman from Wichita doesn’t always leave the crime fighting to the experts. The Hill newspaper reports that Glickman went along with New York’s finest this month on a raid and "came back with a couple of souvenirs — pirated copies of ‘Four Brothers’ and ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.’ His son was the producer of the latter, which means piracy has a direct impact on the Glickman family fortunes."
On Capitol Hill, the newspaper noted, Glickman stands out among lobbyists because of the power of one of the perks he can offer members of Congress: invitations to screenings of new movies at the MPAA’s theater.
And just think: Long, long ago in a galaxy that must feel far, far away, Glickman spent evenings on the Wichita school board.
Posted by Rhonda Holman

5 Comments

  1. Justin Mitchell
    Posted September 26, 2005 at 6:08 am | Permalink

    Costs them $3.5 billion a year? I didn’t know the movie industry paid people to pirate movies.

  2. NoJoCo
    Posted September 27, 2005 at 11:55 am | Permalink

    Hmm…Nothing from the left on their poster boy here? I thought that lobbyists are evil and actually run the government.

  3. JUSTA GUY
    Posted September 28, 2005 at 6:53 am | Permalink

    It’s the ecomomics of the thing, if I pay $22 for a vhs or dvd and it cost me approximately $4 to copy it; look how may copies I have to make and sell to break even. Hey I paid for the film and the film makers got their share, why shouldn’t I get mine.

  4. Ed Friedemann
    Posted October 5, 2005 at 3:50 am | Permalink

    Who gives a rats ass about that old bastard?

  5. Dan Glickman
    Posted March 3, 2006 at 8:42 am | Permalink

    Hey, this website used my name!That’s libal!I want my money!Nothing Dan glickman loves more then heaps of ill-earned cash, forged on the backs of immagrant slaves.

    You!Stop using that inter-web there!Downloading entire movies in meer seconds!Nevermind i know nothing about computers, i mean, i’m from kansas, so therefore i know about only 2 things;Corn and sexual abuse.

    I love money!I’m a whore for money!

    Just call me greedy glickman!