Jack Valenti, former head of the MPAA, died yesterday.

He loved movies, loved his industry, and was genuinely baffled by the file sharers and P2Pers who would sabotage it. He was one of the moving forces behind the creation of IPCentral.Info, not as a vehicle for propaganda but as a channel of education -- he was certain that if only property rights issues could be explained clearly enough then his opponents would be convinced. And he never stopped trying.

Ave atque vale.