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Media Industry Wants Mandated Spyware and More
An anonymous reader writes "The joint comment filed by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) requests anti-infringement software on all home computers, pervasive copyright filtering, border searches, forced US intellectual property policies on foreign nations and a joint departmental agency to combat infringement during major releases." The MPAA would also like to have its rent paid a bit by Congress, with a ban on what seems to me like a useful tool (for those in as well as outside the film industry), the recently-discussed futures market for box-office receipts.
People in hell want ice water, too.
Well, fat chance. The government is not going to mandate big media sponsored spyware on everyone's computers. It would conflict with the DoJ & NSA software already installed ;-)
I'm really torn about this one. The movie industry hates it, but the finance industry likes it; which one is more evil?
Surely this is one of those evil, nasty derivatives that will soon be banned by financial regulation anyway. After all, everyone knows that speculators and derivatives caused the recession, right?
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I think they can "want" in one hand and sh*t in the other hand and see which hand fills up first.
How about what I want for a change?
I "want" everyone involved with the *IAA to be gelded so their genetics are not passed on to further generations.
I "want" constant IRS scrutiny of all their books.
I "want" constant webcam surveillance of every room in their houses, their cars, their offices and GPS bitch collars so their whereabouts can always be known.
I "want" those who would invade my privacy to have their skin peeled off and used for lampshades in my house.
*Repent!Quit Your Job!Slack Off!The World Ends Tomorrow and You May Die!
Well, if this happens, people who never before even considered running Linux will start installing it en masse on their PCs or Macs. People who never before would have made the effort to learn how to install it will become quite proficient at doing so.
Um, would these be the same people who call me for help when their "e-mail is broken" because they accidentally sorted it by something other than 'Date'?
What are they going to do? Ban Linux? They'd have to either shut down or block every single site that offers a Linux ISO.
Let's not give them any more bad ideas, m'kay?
I call prior art.
by over sea coders that will just mess it up or make only work on system with the hardware / drivers that they have to test on.
A joint comment by me and my dog Boog has just been filed on Slashdot.
Be honest. Your dog wrote the whole thing, didn't he?
RIAA v Boog : Illegal download of "How much is that doggy in the window?"
RIAA: Your honor, since defendant can't pay the 100 billion dollar value of this single download, we request Boog be put down.
There you have it: RIAA wants to kill your pets.
The National Security secrets concern the measures in place to protect the earning potential of Waterworld.
Ha! I know a trick question when I see one. They don't have souls.
I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
You should get that cough looked at.
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