RIAA and MPAA smoking pips again.

[w1z4rd]

"The joint comment filed by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) requests anti-infringement software on all home computers, pervasive copyright filtering, border searches, forced US intellectual property policies on foreign nations and a joint departmental agency to combat infringement during major releases."
The MPAA would also like to have its rent paid a bit by Congress, with a ban on what seems to me like a useful tool (for those in as well as outside the film industry), the recently-discussed futures market for box-office receipts.

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/04/17/1211205/Media-Industry-Wants-Mandated-Spyware-and-More

These guys like the South Africa RISA are the maggots of our society.

 

[D.B.Cooper]

Funny thing about this... turns out all those "lost sales due to piracy" figures they like to trot out all the time are... well, fake. They just pulled those figures right out of their asses. What a swell bunch of guys!

http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-423

Three widely cited U.S. government estimates of economic losses resulting from counterfeiting cannot be substantiated due to the absence of underlying studies.

Translation: "We have no real figures to back up our claims so we just made it up. LOL!"

 

[Kosmik]

Talk abot invasion of privacy.

 

[Palimino]

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/04/17/1211205/Media-Industry-Wants-Mandated-Spyware-and-More

These guys like the South Africa RISA are the maggots of our society.

This is so ridiculous that I suspect you’ve been ‘had’.

 

[w1z4rd]

This is so ridiculous that I suspect you’ve been ‘had’.

Im not sure: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/entertainment-industrys-dystopia-future

 

[superfantasties]

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