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MPAA Shuts Down Town's Municipal WiFi Over 1 Download

Posted by timothy on Thursday November 12, 2009 @08:43AM from the so-you're-sure-you-want-gov't-run-wifi? dept.

nam37 writes with this BoingBoing snippet "The MPAA has successfully shut down an entire town's municipal WiFi because a single user was found to be downloading a copyrighted movie. Rather than being embarrassed by this gross example of collective punishment (a practice outlawed in the Geneva conventions) against Coshocton, OH, the MPAA's spokeslizard took the opportunity to cry poor (even though the studios are bringing in record box-office and aftermarket receipts)."

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There must be something more by transparen · 2009-11-12 08:43 · Score: 5, Interesting

I find it hard to believe that they would have shut down the Wifi simply because of a *possible* lawsuit.... Maybe they didn't really want the WiFi after all?

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Re:Geneva Conventions by vekrander · 2009-11-12 08:57 · Score: 5, Interesting

So the MPAA is clearly then allowed to treat civilians worse than people being occupied in wartime by any country that has signed the Geneva Convention?