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MPAA Boss Makes Case for ISP Content Filtering
creaton writes "At the annual UBS Global & Media Communications Conference yesterday, MPAA boss Dan Glickman banged on the copyright filtering drum during a 45-minute speech. Glickman called piracy the MPAA's #1 issue and told the audience that it cost the studios $6 billion annually. His solution: technology, especially in the form of ISP filtering. 'The ISP community is going to be at the forefront of this in the future because they have everything to lose and nothing to gain by not seeing that the content is being properly protected ... and I think that's a great opportunity.' AT&T has already said it plans to filter content, but others may be more reluctant to go along, notes Ars Technica: 'ISPs that are concerned with being, well, ISPs aren't likely to see many benefits from installing some sort of industrial-strength packet-sniffing and filtering solution at the core of their network. It costs money, customers won't like the idea, and the potential for backlash remains high.'"
Encryption is only for criminals.
Captain Copyright told me last night.
ISPs try to do the same thing with spam, and spam still arrives in my inbox. It seems logical then that the best way to get around ANY filter is to change the name to one with genitalia spelled in leetspeak. On an unrelated note, my download of TransP3N1Sformers[2006]DvDrip[Eng] - aXXo is almost done.
I prefer my fucking movies to be indecent.
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
TELLING YOUR PARTNERS TO MAKE DECENT FUCKING MOVIES. Maybe then people might want to pay 30 bucks to see your movie in a theater...
But Fucking Movies are the ones doing well...
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_6059391
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/21/60minutes/main585049.shtml
And you can use your own partner, or someone else's.
e=mc^2
so m=e/c^2
therefore, i owe you e/c^2 for the mass of yours i am using
do you take picodollars?
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
They'll have to pay them in "theoretical" dollars, not real ones.
> Glickman called piracy the MPAA's #1 issue
Can't the Navy or Coast Guard help them with this?
WTPOYSAIYHTWIANTITEIA? (What's the point of your stupid acronym if you have to write it all next to it to explain it anyways?)
I think we should take a note from modern day politics. I think they should stop referring to music that people downloaded without paying as "stolen" or "illegal" but we should refer it "undocumented music" or is on a "guest-listenership plan"
:D
After all, people are just taking the music that no one wants to buy, right?
"Thank you for using Stop-n-Drop, America's favorite suicide booth since 2008"
Could somebody repost Glickman's comments? My ISP had its "whiney bullshit" filter set on high and the original didn't come through.
Have gnu, will travel.
Windows genuine advantage is on strike?
I'm not a pirate, I'm an undocumented customer.
Worst. Porno. Ever.
You know, there is a difference between trolling and pointing out the flaws in your reasoning. Just saying.
I saw a bumber sticker: "If illegal aliens are undocumented immigrants, then drug dealers are unlicensed pharmacists"
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
Well, you have to understand... the studios didn't want the strike. The WGA are a greedy bunch of bastards that expect royalties off internet sales and other so-called "new media". Yeah, right! The studios have no way of knowing how much that new media is worth, so how are they going to pay royalties to the writers?
Don't the writers know that it's clearly impossible for the studios to calculate how much something is worth.... unless it's being pirated of course, then it's clearly worth billions of dollars and costs thousands of jobs ;)
In all seriousness though (and so my whole post isn't sarcasm), J. Michael Straczynski (creator of Babylon 5) has some interesting things to say about the writers strike. It's a good perspective into what motivates the rank and file of the WGA.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Content Filtering is a [Filtered by Comcast] reaction by a [Filtered by Comcast] company that is [Filtered by Comcast] focused on [Filtered by Comcast] its users and they couldn't care less about [Filtered by Comcast] profits.
Signed,
An [Filtered by Comcast]-happy Comcast User
Sig Follows: "Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." -- Mark Twain
My own reasons for preferring to watch movies any place[1] other than a theater:
Your mileage may vary, offer good unless prohibited, state and local restrictions may apply, etc. etc. etc.
[1] International plane flights void all of the reasons listed above, replace with "Shit! When am I going to get out of this hellish sardine can? Oh look, a movie!"
Nope. You have to work to be on strike!
...zing!
Walk with Music;
I'll take that as a "yes." Thanks! But no thanks on the sexual offer. I'm straight.
everything in moderation
To the MPAA, everyone's a pirate. If you have a region-free DVD player, you're circumventing their market-protection system, and you're a pirate. If you crack the encryption on a DVD you bought so you can watch it on your laptop without the disc in the drive, you're a pirate. If you download the movie from a P2P service so you don't have to figure out how to do all of that, you're a pirate.
If you capture a screenshot from the movie and edit it to use as your desktop wallpaper, you're a pirate. If you copy sound bites to use as your sound effects in Windows, you're a pirate. If you say something bad about the movie in an email, you bring a cell phone with video capability into a theater, or opposed DivX players (the ones that competed with DVD for 2 weeks), or support DivX playback on DVD players (the file format/codec of choice for decent quality video over the internet), you're a pirate.
If you download mp3 files of Britney Spears through P2P sites, the MPAA could care less, except that you're going down the slippery slope to becoming a movie pirate.
-PainKilleR-[CE]
I'd warrant that many unlicensed pharmacists do a much better job of measuring/weighing/packaging than many licensed pharmacists.
man, I feel like mold.