Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 11:37:11AM -0400, tom smith wrote:
>> Jack was their senior lobbyist (and apologist) for almost three decades.
>> Smitty
>
> More to the point, he was the president for something like 40 years. I
> think he retired in 2004. That means that, among other grevious harms
> done to the legal use of software, he presided over the MPAA's support
> for the DMCA before he left professional advocacy for limiting fair use.
>
38 to be precise, Captain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Valenti
Gone, but not forgotten.
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