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."'"

Comments

Re:Fiddling while Rome Burns.

[C0rinthian]

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. Nice try, but fail. Your body takes up space that otherwise could be occupied by a paying customer. Until they start building 'Nightclubs of Holding' that is.

Re:LOLOLOLOLOL

[ushering05401]

"Or maybe someone'd come out with an open-source CPU--by the time that they'd be able to implement such a thing, those desktop fabrication plants would probably be capable of wrangling silicon."

http://www.news.com/Sun-makes-Niagara-an-open-source-chip/2100-1006_3-5984935.html

UltraSparc T1.

Warner and Sony BMG run Solaris

[tepples]

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. But what's the big difference between Linux and Solaris in this respect? The web sites of two of the four major members of the IFPI and RIAA are hosted on the Solaris operating system, which is under a free software license.

• Warner Music Group (runs Solaris)
• Sony BMG (also runs Solaris)
• EMI (runs Windows)
• Vivendi (also runs Windows)

Furthermore, one of the partners in Sony BMG makes the PLAYSTATION 3 video game console that is designed to run GNU/Linux.

Re:LOLOLOLOLOL

[mhall119]

Or maybe someone'd come out with an open-source CPU--by the time that they'd be able to implement such a thing, those desktop fabrication plants would probably be capable of wrangling silicon. Somebody already mentioned Sun's new Sparc chips, but there are far more than just that:

http://www.opencores.org/

You don't even need to fabricate them yourself, an FPGA is all you need.

Re:LOLOLOLOLOL

[iluvcapra]

Just a nit... Professionals use nothing approaching betamax. They use Betacam SP and Digital Betacam; the electronics and recorded format are different, Betacam is a component format compared to Betamax's composite format, the tape speeds are different, etc. Really the only things the two formats share is the physical format of the cassette box, and the word "Beta" somewhere in the name.