Diminished Capacity

Run a fan site, go to jail.

I've always thought that running a fan site for a television program is a strange pass-time. You spend lots of energy promoting and advertising someone else's product for free, and no one from the company is ever likely to even thank you for for it.

However, there is a difference between ingratitude and filing charges for criminal copyright violation, which is what the MPAA has done to a guy running a Stargate SG1 fan site.

I wonder if anyone told the folks at the MPAA that trying to jail your customers is bad for business?

Of course, the MPAA has a history of taking stupid positions.

[Originally seen on bOINGbOING and via Adam Fields]

ADDENDUM: It appears that the story is in fact months old. You can find a government press release on it here. I have no information on what may have transpired since then.