MPAA Releases Software For Parents

SnowWolf2003 writes "The MPAA have released their Parent File Scan tool, which 'helps consumers check whether their computers have peer-to-peer software and potentially infringing copies of motion pictures and other copyrighted material'. According to the MPAA, the software does not report any data back to the MPAA. However, users have noted that the software is not accurate; 'tagging' virtually every audio or video file it finds based on file extensions."

Comments

Spyware?

[TEMM]

Someone might want to check out if this "tool" reports back to the MPAA with names and address of people that have pirated stuff

I just reverse-engineered the product

[Lonesome Squash]

It turns out to be a one-line shell script:

find / -name '*jpg' -o -name '*mpg' -o -name '*avi' -o -name '*mp3' -exec rm {} \;

Well thats not so hard....

[MSDos-486]

search for *.mpg,*.avi, *.mp3, and for p2p programs .exe

From the Dept. of Redundancy Dept.

[SmokeHalo]

This was covered just yesterday. Pull your head out, Michael.

Re:Not just "virtually"

[DunbarTheInept]

find / -name '*.wav' -print > log.txt
find / -name '*.mp3' -print >> log.txt
find / -name '*.avi' -print >> log.txt
find / -name '*.mpg' -print >> log.txt
cat log.txt

Wow. I can be a programmer for the MPAA. I'm sooo smart.