“If you buy a DVD you have a copy. If you want a backup copy you buy another one.”

—  Jack Valenti

Statement to the Associated Press (November 2003), as quoted in "DVD-copy program tweaked after court order" at CNN.com (23 February 2004) http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/02/23/dvd.suit.ap/

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President of the MPAA 1921–2007

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