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RIAA Wants 'Net Neutrality' To Include Filtering

Posted by timothy on from the we-make-the-rules dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "The RIAA is now worried about the FCC's rulemaking concerning Net Neutrality. Specifically, they're worried that the rules might make it difficult for ISPs to filter out copyright infringement and child pornography, so they want to make sure that spying on and filtering internet traffic is okay, so long as it's being done for a good reason, even if it doesn't work correctly and blocks non-infringing content. Incidentally, the RIAA has some justification to lump child pornography and copyright infringement: after all, people might infringe upon the original cover art for the album 'Virgin Killer,' which featured a naked under-aged girl in a way that some consider pornographic. The copyright on it belongs to RCA Records."

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  1. Classy by John+Betonschaar · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The RIAA knows that they won't find much sympathy anywhere if they ask for a carte-blanche on traffic spying just to catch a few illegal MP3's, so they just throw in child pornography, for good measure.

    Seriously, child pornography is the new Godwin for justifying invading privacy and getting constitutional exemptions.

    1. Re:Classy by Thanshin · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Seriously, child pornography is the new Godwin for justifying invading privacy and getting constitutional exemptions.

      The real question is: Why are people still unable to reply "don't use child porn for your benefits", and stop the argument right there?

  2. Re:"Cause I'm the only judge of what is proper"... by Kilrah_il · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You know what would be funny? Suppose Google wanted the congress to finally enact laws to help protect Net Neutrality (NN, from now on). They knew the government isn't doing anything and after the Comcast case, NN was in jeopardy.
    So what to do? They team up with one of the big wireless carriers (AKA Verizon) and make up a not-so-bad-but-also-not-so-great deal and that way they have a force major backing up NN. Now there are two options:
    1) People will like the deal and it will be pushed forward -> A good option.
    2) People will be enraged by the compromises and demand the congress enact stronger NN rules (ones that will include wireless traffic)! The congress, being voter-minded will jump on the bandwagon (and having a big company like Verizon supporting NN doesn't hurt also) and push to enact said laws -> A great option!

    So now you have Google, which (for the sake of this post) really does want complete NN as it always said, making a move that is a win-win situation for the NN group. Brilliant!

    I know, to convoluted, but a nice scenario neverthelss.

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