This is a satirical article posted on BBSpot that had WAY too many of us fooled…

To sum it up:

The MPAA defines a home theater as any home with a television larger than 29” with stereo sound and at least two comfortable chairs, couch, or futon. Anyone with a home theater would need to pay a $50 registration fee with the MPAA or face fines up to $500,000 per movie shown…

The bill would require that any hardware manufactured in the future contain technology that tells the MPAA directly of what is being shown and specific details on the audience. The data would be gathered using various motion sensors and biometric technology…

‘Just because you buy a DVD to watch at home doesn’t give you the right to invite friends over to watch it too. That’s a violation of copyright and denies us the revenue that would be generated from DVD sales to your friends,’ said Glickman.

mcatrage’s digg comment explains why we were so easily fooled:

Sad part is would you really put it past the MPAA to actually try and do this?

…man, I was REALLY pissed off for a second there.