Media Industry Wants Mandated Spyware and More

Posted by timothy on Saturday April 17, 2010 @01:33AM from the give-'em-an-inch-they-take-a-file dept.

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.

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I would urge IATSE to strike against this by ev1lcanuck · 2010-04-17 02:00 · Score: 5, Interesting

Should these asinine ideas come closer to fruition I would urge the union of which I am a member: IATSE Local 700 Motion Picture Editors Guild to go on strike and encourage other IATSE unions to do the same. The ideas being proposed can and will harm our industry and our livelihood by creating distrust and distaste of the media in the general public. It is unacceptable to treat our customers as criminals.

If entertainment industry workers took a stand for the country as a whole then public opinion would be on our side. The producers would have to take us seriously.