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MPAA Infiltrating Campus Nets with Software
unassimilatible writes "CNet is reporting that the MPAA is starting to infiltrate college campuses with automated anti-piracy software. Known as the Automated Copyright Notice System (ACNS), the technology promises to make copyright enforcement easier on peer-to-peer networks, saving schools and Internet service providers (ISPs) time and money. ACNS allows them to automatically restrict or cut off Internet access for alleged infringers on notice from a record label or movie studio. Though not specifically ACNS, a similar system is set to go live Monday at the University of California at Los Angeles, one of the nation's largest universities with 37,500 students. UCLA's Copyright Policy page makes no reference of this system being implemented."
Does that paris hilton sex tape count as priated. my friend was wondering, not me. i swear
even a stopped clock gives the right time twice aday...
As a 48 yo grandmother, and a feminist, I am offended that this article considers grandmothers as technically incompentant.
The ministry of Plenty released today that production of shoes was up 20% from the same time last year...
These MPAA narcs will stop at nothing. I had a bad feeling about that dreadlocked hackysack dude after we found him snooping around the dorm router. Also took note of the 3-piece suit under the poncho. Something isn't right here.
You may not have appreciated "A Brief History of Rhyme" but there's no denying his impact on the British gangsta rap scene. Truly a degenerate, adulterous limey gimp, he will be missed.
You were sharing Chicago?
You're lucky you didn't get nailed for terrrorism.
All these "programs" only run on M$ [ding!] Windoze [ding!] anyway.
2 points.
If you are luser [ding!] enough to run something as lame as Winblows [ding!] for your P2P trawling, you deserve whatever happens to you.
2 more points.
Me and my linux boxen [ding!] [ding!] will be happily working with no interruption.
Boxen! That's worth double.
Later on, M$ [ding!] suckas!
7 points total. Well done.
Funny, looking at the logs we see that your message was composed under Win95, running IE 4.
Religion is for people afraid of going to hell.
Wouldn't it be far cheaper and easier to train a bastard operator to remove the files and hassle the users?
Fred
"A fool and his freedom are soon parted"
-RMS
Wow, how long do you think it will be before this is abused.
Enter one Melvin P. Thornowsky, CS major, geek with taped glasses and pants a little tight around the armpits. Of course, our hero has a HUGE crush on Miss Bambi Vanderbilt, sophomore member of the local Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. Melvin finally gets the nerve up to ask the beautiful, yet not all that smart Bambi out. Of course, he goes down in flames.
As revenge Melvin hacks Bambi's brand new laptop that her Daddy bought her and adds a nice pirated copy of "Flesh Gordon". Next time she hooks up to the campus network to check Cosmopolitan Online the MPAA Storm Troopers show up and take her to Jail. The whole Vanderbilt family is embarrassed, Bambi is disinherited and has to move in with Rocko, her secret boyfriend from the wrong side of the tracks.
MPAA - ruining lives one campus at a time.
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Come now. Let's not disparage monkeys by saying they'd have relations with the MPAA.
I'm in the hole of the broadband donut.
finkployd was summarily executed after a copyright infringement case.
Ceci n'est pas une sig.
:wq!
Terribly sorry. We were talking about the other grandmother on Slashdot.
Please help metamoderate.
Hey! So you just automatically assume I'm a "young whippersnapper" who doesn't know anything because of one little comment? Everybody's always making assumptions around here and I'm sick of it.
...BTW, what's an LP?
;)
One of the tricky and devious ways that Slashdotters judge the competence of message posters is whether or not they can use a Spell Checker program.
Wow. Did you stay in East Halls at PSU, too?
I'm in the hole of the broadband donut.
Professional litigators have friends? ;-)
dinner: it's what's for beer
Darn right. The RIAA, the NMPA, and the MPAA make up the Music And Film Industry Associations of America (MAFIAA).
sig:
UCLA: Is this legal?
MPAA: I will make it legal!