RIAA wants anti-virus software to filter pirated content

[RESmonkey]

More shit from RIAA? This time, it will run hidden processes? Slow my computer, will you, RIAA? FUCK YOU!

 

[Bateluer]

Sounds like a good reason to run linux.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: RightIsWrong
I think that this is a very practical solution that the RIAA has come up with. Just have virus software that they design, code and market scan for the stuff. I'm sure that it will sell like crazy.

On a side note, I'm wondering if the changes that they are requesting will also get rid of other viruses like rootkits and drm software?

They'll have to market it well. iVirawayXP, by Oxy-Soft, with some celebrity endorsing it. Or else just Billy Mays. It would sell well at the knowledge wasteland that is Best Buy (or else Walmart), where the employees think a "rootkit" is found in the Lawn & Garden section, and "DRM" is a rapper.

Even the term "digital rights management" sounds like marketing. It's not "digital restriction management," or "digital right limitation."

Digital rights management - it deals with good things, "rights." And "management" implies that it's going to help keep your music organized and in line. See? It's not about taking away the ability to burn something to a CD, or about limiting the number of times you can listen to a song, or about limiting how many devices you can transfer the file to. It's the same way that a bullet is merely a "high velocity momentum transference apparatus."

 

[MegaVovaN]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
bullet is merely a "high velocity momentum transference apparatus."

:laugh: WIN! :thumbsup:

 

[irishScott]

There will always be pirating, DRM will always fail. Period. Blueray is one of the best examples thus far...

Come to think of it, the RIAA might actually help piracy. Intellectual Darwinism. The non-tech savvy pirates who are dumb enough to get caught die out, thus ensuring that the 1337 pirates learn more about said DRM from their demise and get all the stronger 😀

Also, as far as I'm concerned, Stargate Atlantis came on last Friday, and I could have legally recorded it to VHS and watched it as much as I'd liked. Therefore, I should be able to watch it on/download it from Stage6 for my own use. Most of the Divx movies posted on Stage6 don't get past ED BetaMax/Super VHS resolution anyways...

 

[nonameo]

It's OK, I don't worry about this. I don't listen to/buy music CDs or movies. Mostly because I'm a cheapass and movies/music are insanely expensive for what you get.