Install Copyright Filters on PCs, Says RIAA Boss

[safan80]

http://slashdot.org/articles/08/02/07/197201.shtml

"At a conference last week, RIAA president Cary Sherman said he didn't support mandatory filtering by ISPs, but in a video clip posted by Public Knowledge, Sherman offers a far more troubling 'solution': installing filters on users' PCs. From Ars Technica's coverage: 'The issue of encryption "would have to be faced," Sherman admitted after talking about the wonders of filtering. "One could have a filter on the end user's computer that would actually eliminate any benefit from encryption because if you want to hear [the music], you would need to decrypt it, and at that point the filter would work."'"

[Omastar]

Good one, Cary. Your hypocritical Fascist tendencies amuse me. Now go back and complete college, and this time try to stay awake in class.

[DeadlyFire]

Guaranteed word-around within one week/month upon release of this "filter"; There are a lot of really determined people out there :yepp:

[Scubar]

It would fail miserably anyway as it would be hacked in days and the fact this is impossible to enforce anyway just makes it laughable.

[Zytek_Fan]

ahahahaha.

Sure OEMs might give in for some weird reason, but us custom builders would be fine :rofl:

[zanzabar]

wouldent it also be illegal since it would have the same problems as sonys thing

[Syn.]

P!ss off Sherman says I

[JargonGR]

Why don't they just accept the fact that RIAA will die a miserable death as will optical media and Brick and Mortar sales. They are getting more ridiculous by the day especially in places like Europe where legal bodies even consider them to be pityful.

Oh well I am really enjoying this.

[Zytek_Fan]

I'm just waiting for some really pissed off person to walk into an RIAA office and shoot up the place.

[Frodin]

I'm not exactly following every move they do (d'oh!), but it seems like these guys are getting more and more desperate. Schadenfreude FTW.

[96redformula7]

I'm just waiting for some really pissed off person to walk into an RIAA office and shoot up the place.

We should call the lady that went to her cable company threating them with a knife. :clap: :clap:

[hollo]

he can come to my house and install a copyright filter on my PC any day! he can even stay for dinner.

anyone have his number?

[cozwin]

i feel for you americans, riaa are really pushing there luck bringing out as many ideas as possible, mainly because vista failed for them

[Swatrecon_]

he can come to my house and install a copyright filter on my PC any day! he can even stay for dinner.

anyone have his number?

hehehe, yea, he can come on over! he just might not leave...

[turtletrax]

Eat :banana::banana::banana::banana: and Die RIAA sludge, says forum reader.

[Monkeywoman]

hey guys, i found this program called peer guardian 2. it blocks anit-p2p ips from entering your computer. http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2/ only use it when u download though because it also blocks HTTP( no net surfing)

[[XC] leviathan18]

perfectly fine for me if they install whatever they want, but keep in mind every bit in my HDD costs 1 million $ so better keep the program slim bastards

[Kunaak]

RIA a stupid filter.

[Spawne32]

Im reminded of an old saying, ... "Where theres a hacker theres a hack." ;) Im sure that if theres any kind of copyright anything, there will be someone out there to hack it.

[003]

I'm just waiting for some really pissed off person to walk into an RIAA office and shoot up the place.

X2!! :shoot: :frag:

[SummerOff]

to show their good will RIAA should install this on their own PC first.
otherwise Killdozer will return to show them respect for people rights.

[ANP !!!]

Lol, what a joke, they always give me a good laugh. :D

[Syn.]

I'm just waiting for some really pissed off person to walk into an RIAA office and shoot up the place.

Please edit your post and take that back.

[gallardo]

Wait... am I getting this right or ar they trying to enforce a filter that would eliminate decryption of files (say... mp3s) so you can't actually hear the music?
Because if I understood correctly... that just spells CAPITAL EPIC FAIL in so many ways:
1) If WGA can be circumvented this would be a joke to a serious hacker.
2) If you've bought some mp3s from say... iTunes... you can't friggin play them?


I say... bring your filters! Try to forcefully install them on our computers! Get sued from end-users and companies (like say... Apple) alike! And then... when all the sueing took all your funding and credibility.... DIE and let us be! You can't control the internet unless you pull the plug completely. Get it through your thick skulls!

[SafeFire]

I oh so love it when people with no apparent knowledge of computers make statements like that.
this is almost (almost), as funny a statement as Ted Stevens "A series of tubes" speech. Do your homework, plzkthnx.

If you throw a "filter" on a computer that decrypts and encrypts files on the go, just using the computer is going to slow things down a whole damn lot.
I don't know, you can't really (by law) enforce users to install certain software on a machine, at least not yet (which would be beyond ridiculous), so I can't see how many end users would actually install such a filter voluntarily.

[NapalmV5]

hdcp drm tpm etc infested hardware software and os aint enough we need more

i wouldnt be surprised if this goes through

[freeloader]

If they pay me to put the filter on my PC, I'm all for it. I want a trillion dollars!...:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: