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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