Microsoft will spy on you for the MPAA
“The users consuming the content
on a display device are monitored so that if the number of user-views
licensed is exceeded, remedial action may be taken.”
Dodd was paid a total of $2.4
million for fiscal year 2011, including a $100,000 bonus. Dodd was
previously believed to be making about $1.5 million a year, while his
predecessor Robert Pisano's salary was pegged at about $1.3 million.
Though the MPAA is required to make tax filings public, 2012 data is not
yet available. The organization itself took in $60.8 million in
revenue, an increase from $49.6 million the year before.
2011 was Dodd's first year at the MPAA; more notably, it was also the year that saw the inception of extraordinarily unpopular anti-piracy bill SOPA.
Dodd was instrumental in pushing SOPA — which was authored by
Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX) — and was up-front about paying
politicians for their support. After Smith tabled SOPA, Dodd was quoted by Fox News
threatening a backlash against Obama, who opposed the bill. "Don't ask
me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then
don't pay any attention to me when my job is at stake," he said. Dodd
himself left the Senate for the MPAA in 2011 after 30 years in office.
"Hey Let me get some of this shit too..." - Slick Willy
