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MediaSentry Hired By People's Republic of China
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "MediaSentry, now called 'SafeNet,' the RIAA's illegal, unlicensed investigator of choice, has been hired by the People's Republic of China to provide DRM for the Olympics coverage. The PRC says it 'owns exclusive rights to the broadcast of all audio and video content via online and mobile distribution channels across Mainland China' and wants to protect it from 'piracy.' I wonder if the Chinese government is aware of MediaSentry's track record — i.e. all the good things it has accomplished so far for the Big 4 record companies."
If I want to watch people running, I can go to my local park and do so for free.
Not that I would.
-- Even if a god did exist, why the fsck should I worship it?
include some sort of torture before the beheading? If it does, I take back my comment about the PRC hosting the Olympics.
Now that I would pay to see.
Day by day it seems that slashdot crowd is just a bunch of bigots. Anything Microsoft does is bad. Anything Google/Linux foundation does is good. Even Apple is cool. DRM is bad and hence SafeNet is bad as well. Getting back to the original story, it is interesting to see the referenced article in the poster. How about this article here http://www.drmwatch.com/drmtech/article.php/3763781 I guess this gives you some insight as which division of SafeNet is working on what. Further, SafeNet does own MediaSentry. But there is more to SafeNet than just MediaSentry. In other news this might be interesting as well. http://www.safenet-inc.com/mykotronx/ . Oops shudder Oh Boy I know I am going to be flamed for this.
PS. Now that I have tried to swim against the tide, the bloody "preview" button says "You failed to confirm you are a human. Please start from the beginning and try again. If you are a human, we apologize for the inconvenience."
> Meh. They're perfect bed fellows and we all know it. They both excel at exploiting an ignorant public.
No, we don't all know it.
In fact, a large proportion of China consider that it is people in western countries that are the ignorant ones. Justifiably, IMO.
How people can just accept what they read and are shown on TV news as 'fact' is quite amazing? I think people in the west have lost the ability to question the truth of what they're shown. I'm even embarrassed by my own parents, particularly about the Tibet thing - they don't seem to be aware of the history the English (my family is English) have in that region and the history in general. All they see is people dressed as monks (some of whom are, to Chinese people, clearly *not* Tibetan) being all 'peaceful'. They don't realize that the monks were the ruling class (cast?) there (they were given local authority by the Beijing gov.), had developed their own fighting army, and would treat the peasants as slaves and generally really poorly. If I were the Chinese gov. I'd want to cancel the authority I'd given them too since it'd clearly been abused (like in other places).
I know everyone isn't as unquestioning, but it's pretty much true that people are brought up in a world where 'communism' is automatically bad (no matter what form it takes). People didn't used to just blindly trust what they saw on TV news, but it seems like people don't question what they're told these days - what's changed?
The fact is, there's a *lot* of history in what has happened there, and so it is a lot more complicated than can be shown on a few news broadcasts.
Well, that's my opinion anyway. Take it or leave it. I suspect you'll do the latter.
Max.