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Install Copyright Filters on PCs, Says RIAA Boss
Don't squeeze the Sherman writes "At a conference last week, RIAA president Cary Sherman said he didn't support mandatory filtering by ISPs, but in a video clip posted by Public Knowledge, Sherman offers a far more troubling 'solution': installing filters on users' PCs. From Ars Technica's coverage: 'The issue of encryption "would have to be faced," Sherman admitted after talking about the wonders of filtering. "One could have a filter on the end user's computer that would actually eliminate any benefit from encryption because if you want to hear [the music], you would need to decrypt it, and at that point the filter would work."'"
Not out of touch with reality at all!
Having implemented RSA public key encryption/decryption on my malleus, incus and stepdius, I listen to digitally archived music by dd'ing the GnuPG-encrypted files directly into /dev/dsp, deciphering the tunes on the fly, in-ear, using my memorized private key.
NOW HOW DOES YOUR FILTER WORK FOR THAT SETUP, SUCKERS???!11
:%s/Open Source/Free Software/g
YTARY!
I'm glad the guy doesn't have a clue. It would be so lonely in that big empty head...
But to make this business model work, it requires that the entire planet changes the way it does things and I get to control when, how or *if* how you use the stuff I sell to you. Sound good to you?
Why don't they just say what they really want: have everyone pay for music and never get to listen to it.
If they manage to get this into Vista Service Pack 2, 2009 really could finally be the year of Linux on the desktop.
Beep beep.
They'll rip your ears off (or transplant them onto your a.... which they think they already own)
politicians are like babies' nappies: they should both be changed regularly and for the same reasons
Of course not. Linux is a "hacker" operating system that is only used by people who try to circumvent safeguards that are used only for the protection of the children and good of the economy. Anyone using such a nefarious operating system doesn't deserve to be entertained, individually, at the low low fee of 0.01c per frame, per eyeball, per single non-sharable viewing.
RFC2119
Oh yeah. Lobbying. God bless free speech! Just wait for Windows 7. If it doesn't include this Windows 8 most likely will.
You fail it. Information wants to be *free*. Why should I pay hard-earned money just to listen to a band for an hour or two, and end up empty-handed? I deprive *no one* of *anything* if I have a mate let me in the back entrance of a club. Sneaking into concerts is the new downloading music.
The solution is simple: Just don't play ANYTHING unless it passes the DRM check. After all, if people are creating their own music they're just stealing from the music industry anyway. Easy fix. It's pretty much in line with the current industry thinking anyway.
I read the internet for the articles.
...but a friend of mine knows a little bit.
He tells me that lots of people already have copyright filter software on their machines. I think it was called bittorrent or something....
So does Anonymous Coward have good karma?
Maybe what these people do is brainstorm up a bunch of crazy ideas, release them to the public, then check sites like this to find out if they're good ideas or not.
What we should do as a community is all claim that one of these ideas is perfect and watch them run with it.
He better not buy me a fucking pony. I'm not cleaning their crap off my lawn as well.
> ...on his PR statements, and a bullshit filter on his mouth?
:-)
How do you expect to convince him to wear a ball gag?
Just like those survivalist types who have their own generators and water purification systems for when the world finally falls apart - I've got myself a ZX81 and plenty of cassette tapes for this post tech hell you describe, or as I like to call 'Armageekdon'.
I'll just fire that puppy up, change my name to Mad Betamax and ride out the storm. Yeeee haaaa!
Genesis 1:32 And God typed
"It looks like you are trying to copy copyrighted material. I have already called the police for you so that you don't have to." -Clippy
Table-ized A.I.
They had a technical guy, then they found out he had the code to their program in on his workstation _and_ in version control, so they sued him for copyright infringement.
As if that weren't bad enough, they found out that their lawyers made _two_ copies of all their contracts, and even gave one away to the other party, so they had to sue him for copyright infringement too.
It's hard being the RIAA.
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Holy crap. You actually used Netcraft to confirm it!
"False hope is why we'll never run out of natural resources!" - Lewis Black
RIAA reports that new copyright filters will be powered by eating babies and cute puppies. Everyone else says, "I'd like to be surprised by this turn of events, but it's really perfectly in line with their past actions."
Instead of cracking the DRM, why not crack their skulls?
Two thumbs up on that idea. I'll bring the rope.
-1 Uncomfortable Truth
RIAA: I want you to filter out all the copyrighted music. You do know which ones are copyrighted?
PC: All of them?
RIAA: Good boy.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
I dunno, but back in the day there weren't any Beta porn tapes around, at least where I was. I was a teenager then, so believe me I was looking.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
So flip the first bit
which is totally what she said
It's not that Jessica won't return your calls, it's that your mom keeps picking up the upstairs phone and telling her that's she's a tramp and she should stay away from her precious Jeremy.
You think that's a bad infringement.
They caught one of their tech guys trying to show a new tech guy the ropes. Do you have any idea what that means? Copying ideas like that from one person to another without even paying licensing and royalties!!
What is the world coming to?
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Jessica Alba still won't return my calls
Sorry, I was busy washing my cat.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
I was doing my O-levels in 1978 - thanks for making me feel old, you insensitive clod :(
Still remember listening to the original on an old radiogram that my Dad passed on to me when he got a new-fangled Hi-fi :-)
Oh, and btw - get off my lawn!
One swallow does not a fellatrix make