Wired: Wired News: Anti-Piracy Campaign Gets a Laugh
A new parody site, RespectBootlegger.org, is fighting against the Motion Picture Association of America's (MPAA's) site, RespectCopyrights.org. The parody tells parents how to educate their kids downloading bootleg films and pokes fun at MPAA's attempt to show blue collar set workers getting cheated as a result of bootlegging rather than the highly paid stars.
Dan Mirvish and Mark Bell, who created the parody site, claim the MPAA site is hypocritical. They say Hollywood shouldn't use the union worker as an example of who will get hurt if films are downloaded because the very same Hollywood "will fight them tooth and nail over every union contract and ship their work overseas in a heartbeat."
