Film business strikes back at Google over piracy act

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WASHINGTON: The film industry came back swinging, calling recent claims by tech companies including Google that online piracy legislation will destroy the Internet "nonsense," while also labelling those assertions as an effort to "gin people up."

Speaking at a phone briefing with the media, Michael O’Leary, senior executive vice-president for global policy and external affairs for the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), said that the scourge of online piracy "is only getting worse" and that proposed legislation in Congress would go a long way toward combating the problem.