Is Litigation The Best Way To Tame New Technology?: “Mr. Valenti, the president of the Motion Picture Association of America, was testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, and he was ready for a rhetorical rumble. The new technology, he said, ‘is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.’ It was 1982, and he was talking about videocassette recorders.”