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Federal Official to Head Film Pirating Fight

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Jon Healey

The major Hollywood studios’ trade group has plucked a top Justice Department official to lead its fight against piracy.

Chief Executive Jack Valenti of the Motion Picture Assn. named John G. Malcolm to be the group’s director of worldwide anti-piracy, replacing Ken Jacobsen, who is retiring. Malcolm has spent the last 2 1/2 years as an assistant attorney general in the criminal division of the Justice Department, and his purview included high-tech and copyright crime.

Malcolm, who is scheduled to start April 5, called the MPA job “a unique and challenging opportunity for a very important industry.” Noting that the studios estimate that they lost $3 billion to piracy last year, Malcolm said, “This problem’s going to get worse before it gets better.”

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-- Jon Healey

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