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Viacom Wants Industry Wide Copyright Filter

Posted by Zonk on from the putting-a-lid-on-free-speech dept.

slashqwerty writes "Unsatisfied with the proprietary copyright filter Google recently unveiled, Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman has called for an industry standard to filter copyrighted material. Mr. Dauman has the backing of Microsoft, Disney, and Universal. 'They reflect the fact that there ought to be a filtering system in place on the part of technology companies,' he noted. 'Most responsible companies have followed that path. What no one wants is a proprietary system that benefits one company. It is a big drain to a company like ours to have to deal with incompatible systems.' How would an industry standard impact freedom of speech and in particular censorship on the internet? How would it affect small, independent web sites?"

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  1. Youtube by Ethanol-fueled · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Has anybody been to youtube lately?
    Almost every link to a video worth watching(with the rare educational exception) leads to "This video has been removed due to...."
    Control is controlled by the need to control. The content providers will shoot themselves in the feet so many times that they won't have a leg to stand on.

    1. Re:Youtube by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Insightful

      You are right, but I think we should help them.
      Lets remove all pirated content everywhere.
      No more illicit MS Windows, no more photoshop, no more movies, no more music.

      Let them go out of business when they realise word of mouth is 99% of the battle.

      --
      liqbase :: faster than paper
  2. It's all a big joke by jimicus · · Score: 5, Funny

    One day, maybe in the not too distant future, there will be an article on /.

    It will read like this:


    Your Rights Online: MPAA admit that everything they have said for the last 5 years has been a practical joke
    Posted by kdawson on Tuesday Cantrembember 75th @ 27:00
    from the i-knew-it department
    Anonymous Coward writes:     The MPAA has finally admitted what a lot of people on Slashdot have suspected for a while. Everything they've done for the last 5 years was all part of a practical joke.

    "The lawsuits, the absurd DRM, the crazy "the entire industry is going to collapse" rhetoric - we never believed any of this crap", said a spokesman. "What actually happened was someone suggested that perhaps we could somehow start announcing these ridiculous ideas, record the reaction then release it as a movie. Kind of like The Truman Show, only much much bigger."     Has the MPAA finally gone too far? Will this lead to their ultimate collapse? Quiver with excitement. Tremble with fear. Eat peanuts with raisins.