It was a matter of time before it happened but the internet trailer for Kevin Smith’s film ‘Zack and Miri Make a Porno’ has yanked off the by MPAA because it wasn’t rated, which I thought was the whole idea of having an internet-only trailer. But of course the MPAA are being their usual devious selves about how they conduct themselves:

“The MPAA called and said we had to take it down. Weinstein Co., like most studios, is a signatory of the MPAA,” explains Smith. “As such, there are protocols involving trailers that we failed to follow. As with features, all trailers get rated get rated by the MPAA. The majority of them are for general audiences (Green Band trailers), but trailers packed with adult content (like our teaser) earns you what’s called a Red Band trailer. … Well, we didn’t go through this process - simply because, we felt, that since the teaser didn’t contain any footage from the actual flick, it wasn’t technically a trailer. Boy was I wrong. I never realized this, as it’d never been a problem in the past: we’ve been doing ‘net-only teasers since “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back” and nobody ever raised a red flag before, not even on the last flick, for which we also put up two ‘net-only teasers in advance of the rated trailer. But I guess since the teaser was so, shall we say, racy… a rating was in order.”
With any luck the trailer will be back up and running soon.

Source: slashfilm