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Entertainment Industry's Dystopia of the Future
renek writes "If you think the RIAA/MPAA's tactics have been outlandish, laughable, and disconcerting in the past, you haven't seen anything yet. From government-mandated spyware that deletes infringing content to border searches of media players, this reads like an Orwellian nightmare. Given the US government's willingness to bend over for Big Media it wouldn't be terribly surprising to see how far this goes and how under the radar it stays."
the article notes that what is being talked about is a wish list submitted and isn't even as close as proposed legislation. this article is also on eff's site who have their own narrow minded goals. this is part of democracy where groups negotiate with each other to get what they want. to negotiate you have to give something up, so the industry is proposing a lot of things it knows will get removed and likewise eff calls attention to things it would like to be removed but never will be. everyone is doing their job as long as citizens stay informed and these 'interest' groups work together to get an outcome more people will find acceptable.
every anarchist is a baffled dictator. Benito_Mussolini
Taking away all rights is what they would give up. as would EFF give up the purely user centric definition of rights ie we want it for free, or better yet pay us to consume your goods. Some rights would be kept others wouldn't, hopefully in a manner that made sense and benefited most.
every anarchist is a baffled dictator. Benito_Mussolini
I dunno about you but www.eff.org just got another donation.
You don't think that maybe this is why the EFF is writing articles like this?
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