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FBI Anti-Piracy Seal
Supp0rtLinux writes "Looks like the FBI is giving a new anti-piracy seal for entertainment and software products. Looks like now the RIAA and MPAA pursuits will add a new federal level to future prosecutions." I'm pretty sure that our forms of media already contain warnings against unauthorized duplication, rebroadcasting, and public performance, but now it's in logo form!
Why not just cut to the chase and arrest people the moment they buy the movie?
So does that mean that I have to update the warnning message on all my downloaded movies?
There are 10 kinds of people in the world > > Those who understand binary and those who don't
So will this mean that when programs load they will have a 'Blue screen of Theft'?
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. -Martin Luther
Now we know which products to boycott!
DRM sucks
You mean you didn't pay attention to the FBI warning message? It's illegal to skip it!
I hope you had expressed written permission, rather than just implied moral consent, to ignore it. If not, you could be next.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
... According to the article.
Occam's Razor says that this means 6 out of 10 movies are crap, not that 90% of people are thieves.
-- Your mother uses Emacs.
I've seen those FBI warnings on DVDs as well as tapes. The funny part is that, judging from their image quality, I'd guess they were copied from VHS!
But this is only encouraging piracy! Let me explain. This seal will have to be visible right? So now we have not only "Explicit Lyrics" stickers, but also "FBI Anti-Piracy" stickers. Soon to follow is "PEPSI, you can also download this music for free!" stickers, and "SCO - this crap was digitally mastered on a linux platform so you owe us $699" stickers. And EULA stickers, and "Stickers against stickers association" stickers..
So here's the situation: you enter the record store and you can't find your CD because they're all covered with stickers. So you begin to peel some of them off, and the clerk comes to you and asks what the hell you're doing with their property. Then you reply something like "Oh sorry.. i was just about to go home and start up kazaa, anyway."
So you see! It leads to piracy!
Does anyone think that this will be as helpful to people as the "Tipper" stickers are?
Parent: "Hmm this is copyrighted...Nope, son you can't listen to this."
Child: "Can I get the latest Eminem CD then?"
Parent: "Well, as long as it isn't copyrighted, it's fine by me!"
EVERYDAY IS CATURDAY
Listen here punk, bring that thing NEAR a Blockbuster(TM) and I'll throw you in Jail, buddy.
Back in the day (early 80s) we'd copy whole tapes, FBI warning and all. Didn't seem to scare us teenage evildoers.
Hmm.. someone's at my door.
Trolling is a art,
Well, The man said that preventing and prosecuting cybercrimes is now the FBI's No. 3 priority. So it looks like they'll spend more time chasing 12 year old "pirates" before they start looking for the next John Gotti, or kidnappers, or other "real" criminals.
What?
He is considered armed and dangerous, bearing several semi-automatic, uh, video cameras. But don't worry, folks - the trusty FBI is hard at work hunting him down so that small children can sleep soundly at night.
Moral consent, in that you can fast forward your own damn tape in your own damn house on your own damn tv without the FBI interfering.
If anyone is offended by my language, please s/damn/double plus unnice/ now.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
I noticed. I spent half an hour, trying to remove the restrictions from mplayer before I realized they weren't there in the first place.
Gotta love open-source. Why add a useless feature like User Option Prohibitions, when people would just remove it anyway? Why give people a reason to fork?
Guess I'm getting too accustomed to the "bend over and take it" method of software distribution.
Contact Me (got tired of viruses emailing me).
Yes! I needed a new logo for my windows boot screen!
The first thing I did when I bought a TV card for my computer, was to capture the FBI warning for a boot screen. It does nothing to prevent copying except to give the cracker something else to write 'owned' on.
Useless.
THE WORLD IS GOING TO END!!!! eventually.
I mean, you just smack 'em in the face with a club. The little fellas rarely put up much of a fight...
oh dang!
Next we'll have logo's saying terrorism is illegal.
In what shape or form does this help the problem at all? It does absolutely nothing but cost marketing money. Nothing more than my hard earned tax dollars going to waste.
Those who trade in their freedom for security, deserve neither.
A more effective FBI seal would be
"This music contains no enterment values for your dollars. Buy something else."
It's so that you don't try to steal the FBI from them. They have bought and paid for federal harassment and intimidation of people that don't give them enough cash, and they don't want you to try and steal the FBI away to say, investigate a kidnapping and ransom.
This constitutes notice that anyone who had a contractual relationship with the FBI, that it is dissolved and the FBI will only pursue actions as necessary to increase the entertainment industry's collective revenue.
Never fear though, the Bush administration is advocating a new law enforcement agency for aiding the citizenry. Already, they have allocated $4.32 in budget through fiscal year 2006...
Anti Piracy Seal? Is that like Smokey, the Fire Prevention Bear?
Best Buy can have you arrested
This anti-piracy Seal, he's like a highly trained anti-piracy agent, whose stealth and clandestine methods of operation allows him to conduct multiple anti-piracy missions against targets that larger forces cannot approach undetected? He's been selected from the best of the best for his discipline, skill, and bravery? He'll strike terror into the hearts of media pirates near large bodies of water everywhere?
.I dunno. . .logo or stamp or something on the damn disks saying "piracy is bad, m'kay?". Bloody lame if you ask me.
No? Not that kind of seal?
Then I expect he'll amuse children and adults alike with his antics, balancing balls on his adorable snout and clapping his flippers together, all the while conveying a powerful anti-piracy message to our youth?
No? Aw c'mon! You're not seriously telling me that the FBI signed up a washed-up early 90's soul singer to convey their anti piracy message? That's just so lame. It probably would have been more effective for them to just put some kind of. .
I want the fire back.
... so I can slap a circle & slash on it for my own stuff.
How this rebranded "Don't Copy that Floppy" seal is going to deter piracy is beyond me. I'm sure it was as much of a deterrent as that William H. Sessions "Winners don't use drugs" campaign that showed up in arcades in the 90s.
Or we'll make even bigger warning labels! Big bright ones with popup stop signs and menacing pictures of fingers wagging in disapproval!
I used to spice the FBI warning onto home movies just as a goof.
wbs.
Huh?
"It's not like anyone paid attention ever to the FBI warnings at the beginning or end of VHS tapes."
You are probably one of those desporadoes who tear the tag off their mattress!
WASHINGTON, DC (UPI) - Vowing to put a dent in an illegal practice that robs the entertainment industry of three billion dollars a year, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has unleashed a new tool in the fight against online music pirates. In a media event this afternoon at FBI Headquarters in Washington, Director Robert Mueller unveiled Chester, the bureau's official Anti-Piracy Seal. Chester, a seven year-old harp seal that was rescued from a fisherman's net off the coast of Maine, has been recruited by the bureau to "inform America's youth about the harmful practice of copyright infringement," according to Mueller. "We hope that he will teach our children that it is wrong to steal music from the Internet."
Chester impressed a crowd of roughly 100 reporters, music industry representatives, teachers, and students by balancing a copy of Hoobastank's latest CD The Reason on his nose while holding a copy of Incubus' Crow Left of the Murder between his front flippers. At one point in the press conference, an actor portraying an online music pirate attempted to take the Incubus album from Chester, at which point the seal snarled and bit off the would-be-thief's left pinky. Chester also demonstrated that he was able to use lawn darts to burst large balloons that were imprinted with the logos of Kazaa, Morpheus, Gnutella, and other popular Internet P2P ("peer-to-peer") file sharing applications.
"He's quite the talented creature," beamed Mueller.
After the press conference was over, Mueller loaded Chester up in an unmarked Chevy Malibu and took him to Millard Fillmore Elementary School in suburban Washington, D.C. for a classroom visit. The popular seal captured the hearts of Mrs. Eleanor Richards' third grade class when he waddled around the room with a bucketful of FBI/RIAA anti-piracy literature hanging from his nose. "Chester taught me that it is real, real bad to steal music," said nine year-old Timmy Jacobson, of Alexandria, VA.
"I learned that Adolf Hitler also stoled music," pointed out ten year-old Kaitlyn Frankenhoff.
Chester is scheduled to visit five schools a week during an extended tour that is expected to last eighteen months. His initial weeks will take him from the Beltway south through the Carolinas, to Georgia and Florida, and finally to New Orleans, LA. Mueller is excited about the impact of Chester's mission. "We will get the truth about music sharing out," he said. "The next generation of American children will understand the value of honesty and the reward of a hard day's work." According to Mueller, Chester is also able to "answer the telephone", "close car doors", and "play sand volleyball." When he's not fighting music pirates, Chester enjoys dining on rotten fish and soft serve ice cream.
Hillary Rosen contributed to this story.
We're going down, in a spiral to the ground
I don't understand why they're developing an anti-piracy seal. I mean MacGruff the crime dog made sense, but when I think of anti-pirate animals, I mostly think of that alligator from Peter Pan.
That's why this logo is stupid, printing a silly message is NOT protection. It's just a scare tactic.
So by the Patriot act, doesn't that make both the MPAA and the FBI technically "terrorist" organizations?
Hmm...
when beaurocrats get bored.
"Hey Brian, what are we going to do, today?"
"The same thing we do every day, Paul! Try to take over the world!"
"But we did that yesterday, Brian."
"Oh, right. Well, then... are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
"That now would be a great time to make some logos?"
"...Actually, that's not a half-bad idea, now that we have that whole world thing out of the way."
Or when beaurocrats have to defend their jobs.
"...That's what this staff meeting is all about! That's what happened at the CIA last year. You have to interview with a consultant and they bring in efficiency experts. You're interviewing for your own job!"
"Maybe we could... do something. You know, to convince them to let us keep our jobs."
"Like what?"
"I don't know... make a new logo?"
"Sounds good to me. I'm in."
This attempt at humor brought to you by:
~UP
Eat the Path.
Forget those warnings - how am I supposed to know when a ballgame is over, if the broadcaster doesn't have to go into the "any rebroadcast of this telecast requires the express permission of (MLB, NFL, NHL, etc.)" spiel???
When the broadcaster says, "The final score..." might be a clue.
http://use.perl.org
Monroe said preventing and prosecuting cybercrimes is now the FBI's No. 3 priority, behind anti-terrorism efforts and counterintelligence operations.
:)
What a relief. Once again, it's safe for tradition to come out of the basement.
We can all go back to counterfeiting $100.00 bills and transporting drunken underage hookers across state lines
WITH that copyright warning at least you are sure it is a copy of another DVD.
Much rather that, than a recording made in the cinema!
Wouter.
Pirate Captain: [Looking at the FBI Warning on the video.] Ohhh, I'm so scared.
How many minutes until the new logo is pirated?
"Trademarks are the heraldry of the new feudalism."
Old Splice.
Word to the wise... If you want to keep that girlfriend, stop shouting at the movie screen.
That kind of thing tends to be a dealbreaker in relationships.
a little off-topic, but it seems rather topical. anyone else get an email like this one?
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Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 09:09:46 -0500
From: bill@lavoro-a-domicilio.com
To: news@the-junkyard.net
Subject: You use illegal File Sharing
Importance: Normal
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Message-ID:
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Status: O
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--SCODA7a911414cb96
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Downloading of Movies, MP3s and Software is illegal and punishable by law.
We hereby inform you that your computer was scanned under the IP 195.38.50.145 . The
contents of your computer were confiscated as an evidence, and you will be indicated.
You get the charge in writing, in the next days.
In the Reference code: #9983, are all files, that we found on your computer.
The sender address of this mail was masked, to fend off mail bombs.
- You get more detailed information by the Federal Bureau of Investigation -FBI-
- Department for "Illegal Internet Downloads", Room 7350
- 935 Pennsylvania Avenue
- Washington, DC 20535, USA
- (202) 324-3000
--SCODA7a911414cb96
Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=refcode9983.txt.scr
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Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="refcode9983.txt.scr"
[followed by a 100kb virus. don't recall which one]
grey wolf
LET FORTRAN DIE!
Guy: Soooo - 60% of your movies tanking is a direct result of piracy?
Movie Exec: That's the idea.
Guy: So give me a few examples of the movies you do make money on?
M.E.: Well - there's Spiderman, Lord of the Rings, of course - a few of the lower-budget films that did well - 28 Days Later, for instance.
Guy: And the ones that tanked?
M.E. : Hmmm, so many to choose from - let's say Gigli right at the top there.
Guy: So you're saying that people are downloading copies of Gigli, and that's why no one went to see it in theatres?
M.E. : Errrr...
Last post!
We don't have terrorists in Australia, so they obviously work like a charm.
Maybe these stickers will stop software piracy as well.
$5 / month hosted VPS on linux = awesome!
You'd think they had more importaint things to do like prevent another 9/11.
I know the FBI is a powerful agency, but do they really have the ability to stop dates occurring? And more importantly, if they do manage it, what will come after the 10th of September each year? Will they change the 10th so that it has 48hrs? A 10th of September, part 2?
Enquiring minds want to know.
I yell, "SHIT, I forgot my camcorder."
It stinks. It makes the FBI look like hired enforcers. Can I get an FBI label to put on my car saying "The FBI says Grand Theft Auto is a bad thing"?
... I know a couple of FBI guys and they think Grand Theft Auto III is a great game. One of them gave me a copy.
I dunno
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.