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."'"

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Nope

[Futile Rhetoric]

Not out of touch with reality at all!

PAH!

[c0l0]

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

I have a business model!

[erroneus]

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?

Re:LOLOLOLOLOL

[evilklown]

Why don't they just say what they really want: have everyone pay for music and never get to listen to it.

Wonderful

[Realistic_Dragon]

If they manage to get this into Vista Service Pack 2, 2009 really could finally be the year of Linux on the desktop.

Re:But does it

[Helmholtz]

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.

Re:LOLOLOLOLOL

[Anonymous Coward]

How the hell did these clueless fucks get so much power?

Oh yeah. Lobbying. God bless free speech! Just wait for Windows 7. If it doesn't include this Windows 8 most likely will.

Re:LOLOLOLOLOL

[jandrese]

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.

Re:Brainstorming broken?

[mhall119]

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.

Re:Warner and Sony BMG run Solaris

[cplusplus]

Holy crap. You actually used Netcraft to confirm it!