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[News] [SOT] Big Media Plays Endless Cat and Mouse for Copyrights

  • Subject: [News] [SOT] Big Media Plays Endless Cat and Mouse for Copyrights
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:47:38 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
RIAA, MPAA: Be Careful what you Wish For

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| Schemes are being hatched to make it harder and harder to download 
| copyrighted material across the internet.  Seems they will be just as 
| successful as the method to stop people recording CDs to tape in the “old 
| days.”  And just as ludicrous.   
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/16697/1054/

'Solutions' they have reached: tax blank CDs; tax hard drives; tax USB pens;
persuade AV software vendors to spy on and report what people do; forcefeed
Vista^HME2...


Related and recent:

Illegal downloaders 'face UK ban'

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| The Internet Service Providers Association said data protection laws would 
| prevent providers from looking at the content of information sent over their 
| networks.  
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7240234.stm


RIAA boss: Move copyright filtering from ISPs to users’ PCs

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| The issue of encryption "would have to be faced," Sherman admitted after 
| talking about the wonders of filtering. "One could have a filter on the end 
| user's computer that would actually eliminate any benefit from encryption 
| because if you want to hear [the music], you would need to decrypt it, and at 
| that point the filter would work."    
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080207-riaa-boss-spyware-could-solve-the-encryption-problem.html

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