The MPAA has become very aware that it is in a position that could go quite south for them at any moment, so they are quite literally desperate to get any "data

The MPAA has become very aware that it is in a position that could go quite south for them at any moment, so they are quite literally desperate to get any "data" to support their positions, up to and including re-contextualizing/redefining core concepts of how technology is perceived and used. They were a client of a company I worked for in a past life, and they were fairly out of touch, but seemed to be aware enough that they were not going to "win" by pure technology alone (they grokked that DRM had limited, if any, real value). They are a policy farm at root, and they are going to leverage that as strongly as possible from here on out. My honest suggestion is a scorched Earth campaign against them. Follow the money and start real GOTV/support candidates who refuse to give in to the nonsense. Yes, I understand the argument about where linked content could be perceived as violation based on pecuniary interest (but as stated elsewhere, a reference to a source is not a source, even if it provides the full access to that source), but I personally see that as a tenuous position and certainly lacks merit overall in terms of the generally inchoate state of copyright law these days.