Ignore the RIAA, fight the MPAA
With all the flack we give them, it’s not the RIAA that’s the problem. They’ve mostly lost the battle (enough to where the consumer still has *some* choice, anyway). It’s the MPAA that’s the huge problem. They’ve successfully (and, for the most part, quietly) squashed hundreds (if not thousands) of products that would make our movie and television viewing much more interactive, usable, and downright pleasant. Notice how you can’t digitally record anything from your cable box? Notice how almost none of your components have digital outs? You like how though copying a DVD clearly falls into the context of “fair use”, decrypting it (the first step required in copying it) is actually a felony? This is a problem folks.
And yes, I’ve been reading Darknet. You should, too, and then get out and tell everyone what you’ve learned.
better late than never – is blogging really that time-sensitive anyway
good points dave, i too have been reading darknet…
i’ll be on a panel w/ jd @ the podcasting expo in november – so wanted to be caught up…
amazing part to me is, given my background, how eye-opening it really is, good read…
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It is very simple. The MPAA and RIAA do not own the rights to movies or musice. The movie studios and recording companies do. So if you get a nasty letter from them you got them on that alone.
Second and the most powerful points people are missing is that if they install a malicious program on your system they are guilty of computer espionage and if that program does a search of your system without your consent then they are guilty of violating the 4th amendment which clearly states no unreasonable searches and seizures. So if they installed a piece of software on your computer that searches your computer without you specifically authorizing the search then THEY are guilty and you can file a motion to supress evidence of that search. Without the evidence, the case falls apart very quickly.
The sooner laws change to prosecute real pirates as opposed to P2P users, affiliated countries will be a step closer to the freedom their constitutions claim to preserve. Now we have to wait for Bush’s dodgy patriot act to die before we can enjoy constitutional rights again, namely the freedom from illegal search and seizure by means of police hacking (in this case). Or maybe a programmer more talented then myself will give us a means to bite back at the MPAA and RIAA, the corporate machines/devils at work.
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