Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is an American trade association that represents the six big Hollywood studios.
Read More at Wikipedia ›On Wednesday morning, Michigan high school student Katy Butler delivered a petition with over 200,000 signatures to the Los Angeles office of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), in the push to lower the rating of the anti-bullying documentary “Bully” from “R” to “PG-13.
”And while she may have gone in with high hopes, Butler – who was a victim of vicious bullying during middle school – left the premises more frustrated than before.“The MPAA told me they did not want to change the rating, because they don’t want to be inconsistent. But they have been very inconsistent in the past. This was not the answer we wanted,” Butler told FOX411’s Pop Tarts column following a meeting with MPAA officials. “I felt very dismissed, like I was talked down to because I’m a high school student. They only wanted to talk ratings; I was hoping they would really listen to what I have to say.”Still, this latest setback won’t stop Butler, who is leading the campaign on Change.org, to have the rati...The company hosting the frozen data of millions of users of the file sharing site Megaupload says somebody needs to pay the company's bill or allow it to delete the ...
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