Re: MPAA Ratings PLEASE READ

[Andy Stoffel <see2go4me@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 6, 2005, at 12:34 PM, jin_hayte wrote:

> of all the...wtf is wrong with the world? AAARGH!
>
> --- In buffywantswillow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Robert Head <frank_8281@y...>
> wrote:
> > First, apologies to all mods for the cross-post and OT, But I thought 
> > this might be worthy of a heads up. B.

Has this spread beyond the original recipient? Last I heard only one 
person had received a 'Cease and Desist' from the MPAA. And admitted 
it. There are a few 'a friend of a friend got one' reports without 
proof. And still no reports in the media (It's been a month or so). But 
I haven't heard of any archive sites getting one... it's always 
possible that someone (publisher, producer, content company, IP owner) 
was offended at a specific instance or two of fan fiction based on 
their works and used the MPAA as a way of shutting them down.

Some people are doing things, others are waiting to see if this is real 
and not an attack against a specific writer or two made to look like 
it's from the MPAA.

Personally, I'm gradually going thru the 2 dozen stories on my blog and 
removing any direct MPAA rating-like reference. I've already done that 
for my stories on 'Twisting the Hellmouth' (as requested by the archive 
maintainer, Jinni) and eventually I'll do the same thing at Ikoly.

The MPAA ratings are too broad anyway... so we should probably have 
some sort of independent rating system that is more appropriate to fan 
fiction.
We seem to use NC-17 just to mean "sex and lots of it" or "lots of 
non-mainstream sex (S&M, BDSM, etc)" while R gets the "Tons of violence 
and death" around here.

I don't think there is any issue (yet) with using the British, 
Canadian, or Australian ratings systems... I believe those are all 
government created.
Something to think about.

-Andy-

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