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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.
I am always surprised that people associate the MPAA and RIAA together.
It shouldn't. Most people who complain about them are just upset that someone wants to prevent them from getting free stuff. Any moral arguments they have built up around the topic are later justifications for what they want to do. For an example, see the guy above who says you can't get music without DRM at a good price. He completely ignores the fact that you *can*.
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If people are so cheap that they won't spend 89 cents on their own cultural enrichment, then they are (regards to Ms. Palin) retards. If all you want to do is use the work of someone else for your own enjoyment without giving them something back in return, then you are a leach on society, and deserve nothing in return.
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