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MPAA Developing Digital Fingerprinting Technology
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."
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: Nobody really enjoys it and the frog generally dies as a result. -- E. B. White
Product placement! Every song could become a lengthy commercial for selected high-quality items of interest to the consumer. They could even delve into their back catalogues and digitally enhance older tracks by substituting words like 'smoke', 'like' and 'scavenger' for well-known brands.
Then they could do this with movies, cunningly inserting sponsored products at the most inopportune moments, and-- Oh...
Hal Spacejock: Science Fiction with Nuts
All the talent was used up in the 70's.
Until someone invents something like ssl... oh...
^^
-Ted
-=-=- Quantum physics - the dreams stuff are made of.
Yes, and of course it never would have occurred to terrorists to poison the water supply or infiltrate nuclear power plants or destroy the Holland tunnel if they hadn't heard someone discussing those possibilities on Fox News either.
Wow! Idle ramblings of a bunch of mostly adolescents. Better not let anyone hear this incredible font of devious ideas.
Oh, the horrors!
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
Easy, by running a P2P client and getting the file just like everyone else.
Yeah, it's used to play DVD-Arrrrrrrr's.
"All you have to do is be fragile and grateful. So stay the underdog." Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
Hot diggedy damn. I agree. Personally I think all media should be illegal in out great country. It's too tempting and might corrupt young people. It might also give terrorists ideas. The RIAA and MPAA are good Americans. And we must outlaw all storage like hard drives and CD and DVDR in case a terrorist accidentally copies something onto it. Damn. And then we should round up all swarthy looking types and send em to Guantanamo Bay for torture just in case they ever heard of p2p apps which are illegal.
Let's nuke iran too.
Iran is in Mexico.
Either that's really fucking awesome, or you just figured out a way to make ten thousand Slashdotters all get baby powder on themselves.
I suppose I'll go acquire some baby powder and find out.
Either way, kudos to you.
--grendel drago
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
Expect "digital fingerprint remover" software to appear in the digital 'black market' as soon as this thingy is implemented.
:( :(
Then expect conversations like this to appear in bash:
[Joe]The MPAA is knocking at my house!
[1337-0]Hahahahahah you forgot to remove the fingerprint?
[PhantomZero]ROFL! Pwned!
[Joe]It's NOT funny! I have to go, bbs
[1337-0]bbs, or bbl... way l?
[PhantomZero]LMAO!
In that case, let's make it clear that when we get to the point where FUCKING ENTERTAINMENT COMPANIES are demanding THE GOVERNMENT LEGISLATES SCANS OF EVERY INFORMATION TRANSACTION TO PRESERVE YOUR....THEIR BUSINESS MODEL it's time to start using phrases like FIRST AGAINST THE WALL WHEN THE REVOLUTION COMES .
pour a shitload of babypowder on a cup of water
Hey, now, it's a lot of work grinding those babies up into powder. I'm sure as hell not gonna waste it trying to figure out something lame like whether water is wet or not.
soon I won't be able to send my calculation of the value of Pi to my friends..............