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Jack Valenti Goes On an Anti-Piracy Tour In Japan

by | Oct 1, 1986

MPAA head, Jack Valenti, embarks on a 3-day crusade to crush videocassette piracy in Japan. While in the country, he speaks with various government and police officials. At a press conference, he states that piracy is the “most difficult and most serious, with losses most massive, by some strange irony, in Japan, generally considered one of the most law-abiding nations in the world. “