[tomkarlo]

The MPAA is made up of companies / corporate interests more than it's "made up of people". They're not SAG or AFTRA, as much as they like to pretend they speak for the "little guy" in Hollywood.

From their web site:

MPAA’s members are the six major U.S. motion picture studios

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation

Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc.

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

Universal City Studios LLC

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

[jasonlotito]

sigh

You've completely missed the point.

"Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures"

This company is made up of people. Without these people, this company wouldn't have any power.

"Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc."

This company has people as well. Employees, board members, everyone.

The MPAA is made up of people. Indeed, if you remove the people from the MPAA, you are left with nothing. Corporations aren't a life form.

[tomkarlo]

Corporations are very different from other types of organizations - they make no pretense of representing the interests of the individuals within them. Their interests _may_ align at times with those of their employees, but they often don't - and they're not supposed to.

At the end of the day, corporations are _supposed_ to prioritize the interest of their shareholders, and in practical terms, they often also prioritize the interests of their senior executives, if for no other reason than those executives are compensated in shares of equity.

[joshontheweb]

Just because a company is made up of people does not mean that it will push legislation that represents those people. The interests of a corporation as a whole can be quite different than those of the individual.