After just googling RIAA and MPAA looking for a different article, I ran across this one. I don’t know all the details about when these requests were made or how accurate this story is but i found it really interesting. According to the article the RIAA and MPAA are rallying to the US Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator to create monitoring software to be installed on people’s computers. The software would work like anti-virus software–scanning the computers for infringing works.
The RIAA and MPAA also are hoping to use border control to question people about infringement while traveling. This would also allow for access to check MP3 players and laptops. I think that this, as well as the scanning software, is kind of crazy. Like just imagine if these things were actually put in place. I’d truly be moving to Canada–where a court order is needed to check these things. Anyways, the last request of the associations was to create a joint task force between the FBI and Homeland Security to prevent the leakage of summer blockbusters. So your telling me I would be paying taxes so that they can force me to pay for something else? Ridiculous!!
http://www.osnews.com/story/23160/RIAA_MPAA_Want_Monitoring_Software_Border_Checks
Tell me what you think?
Sorry if the link doesnt work…I always have issues with that
Big brother is watching….This is disturbing because it would take away the privacy of a PRIVATE laptop. I’m sure there would have to be a disclaimer on all systems with the software, but I’d be interested to see if something like this was passed, which companies would pick it up first…who would want to buy a computer that has software spying on what you put on there??
This makes me wonder if we have privacy any more. It seems that everything we look at or do is being monitored. Copyright infringement is wrong, but how far is this going to go?