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

Wow!!!

[superwiz]

Microsoft would love it, love it, love it. This would mean that any operating system whose kernel can be recompiled by the end-users would be illegal under DMCA -- because it would become a device for circumventing copyright protection mechanisms built into the computer system. Say, how do we get the OTHER half of the server market? Well, let's make the competition illegal.

*rolls eyes*

[joeytmann]

While I am all for making backup copies of CD/DVD's or transfering ripped CD's to my iPod-esque device, I do think sharing my ripped files with the rest of the world is wrong. As we see it there are two groups affected by RIAA's attempts to secure the media music is on, the people like me who just want a backup and transfer to a iPod and then there are those that want to do those things AND be able to share their music with their friends/families/12th cousin 3 times removed/bum on the corner/whoever. Which of those does RIAA not care about, the first group. Why? As was stated in the video, yeah when it comes down to it, its illegal but they aren't going to enforce it....how could they with no way to track? The second group on the other hand is basically walking into whatever record store and using their five-finger discount to get music for free. Yeah a bit simplified, but the basic principles work. Everyone needs to remember that to RIAA, music is a product and if someone is stealing it, that means stealing money....and they will come after you. If artists truely wanted their music to be free don't you think they would just submit them to torrent trackers themselves and create a license saying basically the same thing as GPL? Well not very many of them do that. Why? Its hard to be rich and famous with out any FUCKING MONEY. Which is paid to them by the companies that participate in RIAA and pay the artist huge sums of FUCKING MONEY to make their music *cough*product*/cough*. So when it all comes down to it, its the artists fault for demanding such large sums of FUCKING MONEY to make their music. So, don't blame RIAA, blame the artists out there that have made more FUCKING MONEY than the yearly budgets of some 3rd world countries.