RIAA Exec Talks Piracy Filters For End User Hardware And Software

[admin]

Cary Sherman is in the news today. Who is he? An executive at the RIAA. His job is to come up with new ideas on how to beat Web-based hooliganism any way that would prove even remotely feasible.

He’s making headlines now for propositioning anti-virus and anti-spyware specialists - as well as router makers and the like - to market (either overtly or in relatively subliminal fashion) piracy filters that would work to keep free music clear of millions upon millions of hard disks around the globe.

http://mashable.com/2008/02/07/riaa-exec-talks-end-user-filters/

[tigerman8u]

If you add up all the money that they use to develop and put to use copyright protection, software/hardware, advertising, attorney fees, other employee wages, etc, etc, the total amount would be staggering. especially wordwide monies spent. I would bet all this money spent would exceed what they claim they lose to pirates.

Oh and don't forget the amount of OUR tax money that goes to pay OUR government employees that are in their pockets or otherwise. just my $.02

[drfsupercenter]

I think the RIAA is crap anyway...

Everyone knows they steal money from the artists, the only thing that we're doing by downloading free songs is making sure they aren't getting rich off nothing. I'd seriously rather put $0.10 in an envelope and mail it to the artist (as usually they only make about 10 cents per album sold...) and just get the mp3s. The other $14.90 or so they steal and keep for their own selfish purposes. And they're the ones talking?

[admin]

Good points about money spent fighting piracy, as well as the pittance they give to artists. The studio system needs a serious revamp which will take power away from them and give it to artists and consumers. The studios know that this is a threat, so they're not afraid to spend money to protect their interests. The revolution will happen, and all those that stand in the way shall be punished

[drfsupercenter]

Well, these days, a lot of artists have their own MySpace profile, and some even release songs to it so you can listen (and download if you know what you're doing!) for free.

The record company probably allows that, but either way... they're beginning to actually live in the digital world, instead of releasing only CDs and then suing everyone that rips it.

And personally, I think they ought to go after the UPLOADERS... not the innocent downloaders. It's actually in the Canadian law, that you can download whatever you want as long as you don't upload any copyrighted material (someone correct me if I'm wrong... I heard that through word-of-mouth). I think that makes more sense than the "Rip a CD and we're suing you for everything you own" American law.