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MPAA Developing Digital Fingerprinting Technology

Posted by Zonk on from the following-in-your-tracks dept.

Danathar writes "The MPAA is looking to use digital fingerprinting technologies that in conjunction with legislation will enable and force ISPs to look for network traffic that matches the signatures. " From the article: " Once completed, Philips' technology--along with related tools from other companies--could be a powerful weapon in Hollywood's increasingly aggressive attempts to choke off the flood of films being traded online."

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  1. Re:Better than upstream measures by Secrity · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    My opinion is that you are a total idiot. Why are you even considering that ISPs should be put into the position of actively policing it's customer's traffic? This would make ISPs responsible for users' traffic.

    What do you mean by "By moving the enforcement downstream to the proximate illegal act, we may be free to legally digitize our collections."? Turning ISPs into police will not impact the legality of digitizing collections.

  2. Re:Encryption by FredThompson · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    When the dust settles, ISPs will no more be liable for what is communicated over their systems than the telephone carriers are responsible to monitor conversations or book stores are responsible for libelous content.

    Use your noggin' and think this through. If the carriers are responsible to determine the legality of content, regardless of type of common carrier, communication will revert to pre-electronic era technologies. It's one thing to have a chemical sniffer inspecting sealed packages, quite another to determine legality of content.

    This is as ridiculous an assertion as the Democrats screaming that every container and vessel would have to be inspected at American ports. The cost in incursion on traffic would be monumental that it can't be done.

    Communist Germany collapsed, in part, because of the overhead of trying to monitor all communication. The Stasi had half the population spying on the other half. Think about it...

  3. Re:Two ridiculous science fiction stories in one d by rbarreira · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well, it gets better... If you RTFA, you can see the quotes I posted on my other comment in this discussion:

    http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=139331&thr eshold=1&commentsort=0&tid=158&tid=126&mode=thread &cid=11663529

    --

    The AACS key is NOT 0xF606EEFD628B1CA427BEA93A9CA9773F
  4. Tracking prevention by TooTechy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ROT13 all downloads. N times. De-Rot until file becomes valid.

    Open your home wireless Network. Oops, someone else downloaded it :-)