Petition to save HDDVD

[Haig Dedeyan]

Cory K. wrote:
>
> We're only suckers if we let ourselves. CDs aren't going anywhere soon.
> No matter how grim the industry likes to portray itself. CDs IMHO are
> perfect. They can try to come out with supposed "better" formats but it
> will only be in a effort to further copy-protection.
>
>   
> -Cory
>
>   


Here's their next attempt:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/08/riaa_wants_filters_for_end_users/

*RIAA chief calls for copyright filters on PCs*

*By deception or force if necessary*

By Austin Modine 
<http://forms.theregister.co.uk/mail_author/?story_url=/2008/02/08/riaa_wants_filters_for_end_users/> 


Published Friday 8th February 2008 01:36 GMT

When is a virus not a virus? When its sending your personal data to the 
Recording Industry Association of America, silly.

Internet advocacy website Public Knowledge 
<http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/1388> has posted a highlight reel 
from the State of the Net Conference, where RIAA boss Cary Sherman 
suggests that internet filtering sorely lacks the personal touch of spyware.

While ISP-level filtering dragnets such as those proposed by AT&T 
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/11/att_want_to_block_copyrighted_material_at_network_level/> 
have their way of catching the sloppier digital music thieves 
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/03/jammie_thomas_attorney_flees/> 
out there, the technology is more-or-less bypassed by basic file encryption.

That's why Sherman recommends finding a way to install filtering 
software directly onto people's home PCs.

"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 it 
[the music], you would need to decrypt it. At that point the filter 
could work," said Sherman.

"Why would somebody want to put that on their machine? They wouldn't 
likely want to do that," mused Sherman.

Why indeed?

"They'd do that when it benefits them such as for viruses and so on and 
so forth. But that's the sort of thing that could be enforced whether at 
the modem or something that's put in by an ISP."

Ah, trickery. But perhaps you'll need some rationalization so it doesn't 
sound like your average run-of-the-mill nefarious spyware.

I don't think you should underestimate the educational benefit of these 
kind of things. A lot of this is basically letting people know that what 
you're doing here is not OK.

Education. Perfect. If history is any judge, we're sure the RIAA's legal 
department will find a very reasonable and scholarly way of setting a 
person back on the straight and narrow. Meanwhile the vast majority who 
don't steal music will be happy knowing the RIAA is scanning every 
packet of their incoming data in the name of academia.

Catch the highlights here <http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/1388>. Or 
see the full conference here 
<http://www.netcaucus.org/conference/2008/20080130sotn-filters.ram> 
(watching an hour of streaming Real Player video is done at your own 
risk). ®