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Forget ISPs, your PC should snitch
Author: Gareth HalfacreePublished: 8th February 2008
The RIAA would like an application on your PC that keeps you on the straight and narrow.
Sherman has previously stated that he doesn't see the need for mandatory filtering at an ISP level, although he's got nothing against voluntary filtering to prevent the sharing of copyright materials. He knows that with pretty much every major BitTorrent and NNTP client supporting encryption such measures are doomed to failure. To circumvent this, Sherman would like to see filtering done on your PC.
In a panel at a tech conference in Washington DC, Sherman let slip his hopes for “a filter on the end user's computer that would actually eliminate any benefit from encryption because if you want to hear [the downloaded music], you would need to decrypt it, and at that point the filter would work.”
Realising that nobody would voluntarily install such software on their systems, Sherman goes on to propose adding the filtering to anti-virus software – something most Windows users rely on on the Big Bad Internet. If that isn't possible, he'd like the OS vendors to build it right in to the operating system itself – and let's face it, the companies behind desktop operating systems have a tendency to capitulate to the demands of Big Business: just look at Vista's DRM model.
Nothing Sherman said during the panel should be taken as an official stance by the RIAA, but it certainly shows the thought processes behind its leading force. To paraphrase Bill Gates, “A stool pigeon in every home, and Windows on every stool pigeon.”
Should the RIAA et al keep their noses out of your PC, or is it a small price to pay for keeping the poor artists fed? Give us your opinion on Sherman's dreams over in the forums.
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The RIAA doesn't care about that, only leeching as much money as possible for themselves... take this for example:
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/02/05/riaa-sticks-writers
this guy has no clue tho why would i need a decoder on an MP3 they could only force the encoder on Legit stuff which they shouldnt be checking for anyway all this could possible do would be to stop people transfering Legit music accross PCs which would mean no playback in different rooms of the house the guy is a F@@@Tard
Seriously, why shoudl AV manufacturers, or for that matter OS manufacturers piss off their customer base to pander to an industry that creates no revenue for them?
Whatever this guy is smoking, I want some.
Id rather not sound like a d**k
Also how would the software be able to tell the difference between personal rips and stuff distributed over the internet without adding a load of bloat to the file structure or inventing a whole new codec that no one would use.
i honestly doubt any of them will have it, at least none of the ones with a true open source spirit
Stuff like this is important to document, so we can teach our kids in school to learn from past mistakes.;)
would be depressing to write wouldnt it
Sam
What's next? Will they send an agent to every home and office to look over your shoulder, to make sure you are listening only to RIAA-approved-proprietary-encrypted-file-format on RIAA-approved hardware and software?
Besides, wouldn't it be easier to hook a linux box to your sound equipment and do your illegal on that, using a completely clean Windows/Mac environment with only legal music?
Bunch of colossal morons.
lol... imagine you click on play in whatever media player your using, then a message pops up that reads:
"please wait until one of our hitmans has time to check your proof of purchase and enters the code so you can listen to your legally purchased music, failure to comply with this notice will result in immediate assasination (immediate as in after taking you to court and squeezing millions out of you). Thank you for using this great service provided by Hired Goons Ltd on behalf of the Riaa, please send any thank you letters (feel free to include any spare cash, candy and your soul) directly to Riaa World Domination Inc. located at 666 Hell."
...and I would like all women I find attractive to sleep with me.
The point is, we all can't get what we want.
BTW, I just decided my rate for CPU time is $10,000 per cycle.... oh, and I have a vendor agreement policy on my machine. If you want your code to run on it you have to agree to my terms just like I have to agree to yours.
Ancient proverb say "Once avalanche has begun, too late for mountain to vote!"
</Charlie Chan>
Not a huge change there then
If all that people told us about our privacy (or lack of) as true, the world would not be like it is.
On the other hand, the thought of the RIAA doing this is both scary and a bit funny - if they are stupid enough to do this, it will be the kick start that Linux needs to really get in to the mass market.
Distributed Denial of Service.
There's no way that they'll put a list of every single song on your system, so there must be some form of central database. Also, the software will report "infractions" back to the
mothershipRIAA, so that's another point of weakness. Just blast the infraction system with millions of junk "infractions" until it goes catatonic.sorry... anyone asking such a question.... should be.... nevermind....
Might be me.. but what happend to free will n so on? what'll be next? we'll all get these ankle-braceletts @ birth?
Besides: There are many many many freeware A/V's out there...doubt they could "persuade" all of em to fold in
and Geezus F'ing christ when will this pointless,timewasting debate end? Even if DL'ing would be punishable by Gas/Letha linjection or Old Sparky.... it will NEVER STOP... what are they gonna filter anyway? the filename? yeah right... as if noone has downloaded a porn instead of the newest flic off of KazzaaLimewirebearsharebittorrentemuleandgodknowswhateverelse!
DOH!
and again! there are these 1337 G33KS out there that will just go and change/modify some opensource whatever .. and.. voila.. 'ere we go again.. dunno why i am writing this .. coz.. as i mentioned above.. pointless
What although DOES!!!! concern me is... what IF i am a honest law obeying person? As far as i understand their "wishes".. they want to force the owner of PC to have a trojan installed... (silent cry for a new I-Love-You from my side here)
As you sow, so you shall reap.
not to mention the securityholes a M$ O/S will ADDITIONALLY have....geez....why not also stream all Data about opend images to the Old Folks Home Association.. you could be infringing on Mrs. Grandma "intellectual copyright" (if that is what its called) of her KNITTING PATTERNS! FFS!
I wonder..... do people actually BECOME that stupid.. or is it somekind of congenital defect?
BRILLIANT. Now just make sure your terms explicitly ban using code run on your machine for the purposes the RIAA wants to run it for (namely crippling your hardware) so that the instant they sign it and try to run their malware on your machine you can sue THEM for breach of terms! You've beat them at their own game, and what's even MORE miraculous, you've beat them at their own game WITHOUT STOOPING EVEN HALF AS LOW AS THEM! i LOVE it!
Why doesn't someone write a little opensource app called p2tp.exe (Power to the People) that anyone can run to donate their extra bandwidth to blasting idiots off the internet.
Obviously this would create a lot of power to the person with control of exactly where to target attacks.
So maybe some sort of communal voting system could be devised?
Or create several options for targets and you can just tick in the software which companies you dislike and add to the might of the rest of the world.
Really would be an excellent example of democracy in action! :)
Sounds like Survivor of the Internet "Sorry your site has been voted off the island due to incredible public stupidity" :D
so would one expect RIAA to succeed? no chance.
or "You are the weakest link, goodbye!" :D
The beauty is, the only ones likely to vote are the types of people that would linger on the likes of this forum etc. :)
F**K THE RIAA!!! THEY ARE THE ONES WHO ARE THE B**L LICKERS!!!
How do they expect to enfore this? i bet they wont even realise that linux exists - cos you know, everyone only uses windows .....