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"I would encourage you to support any proposal that would result in the maximum engagement by the MPAA in Internet governance. Of all the things we do to protect our industry, this one is fundamental. Ron Wheeler put it well when he said if we’re not there we don’t count."

- https://wikileaks.org/sony/emails/emailid/112456



For context, that was one (US) Sony Pictures and Entertainment (which is specifically the US wing of Sony dealing with content production and licensing) executive emailing another in June 2014, as leaked via Wikileaks. IIRC Sony is not one of the larger studios, so if we learn anything it is that this degree of scheming is present even in the tiny cutesy wee little megacorps.

Incidentally, in another of Wikileaks' public interest projects, consider pledging some cash to uncover TPP @ https://wikileaks.org/pledge/




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