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The MPAA and RIAA has the Office of Intellectual Property Enforcement to implement a series of extreme anti-piracy measures.
Both trade groups want ISPs to use the same technology that they are currently using for virus and spam protection, by filtering out suspected infringing downloads.
They also want ISPs to permanently ban websites suspected of hosting pirated content.
But their most controversial plan calls for spyware tools to be given to users, tools that sit in the background and monitor all computer usage, and delete files that are suspected of infringing copyright.
What the MPAA and RIAA fail to realise is that ISP level spam/virus blocking is almost always optional, in that the user can choose not to have the ISP filter out their emails, and most ISPs do not filter downloads at all. The reason is that filtering tools will always have a high false positive rate.
And all of this requires the tools in question to be able to identify infringing content, when it is hard to establish this even via long and arduous court cases. What the MPAA and RIAA really want through these series of initiatives is to bypass the legal system altogether, so that lawsuits and due process will no longer be necessary, where mere allegations becomes evidence, and suspicion becomes reality.
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Both trade groups want ISPs to use the same technology that they are currently using for virus and spam protection, by filtering out suspected infringing downloads.
They also want ISPs to permanently ban websites suspected of hosting pirated content.
But their most controversial plan calls for spyware tools to be given to users, tools that sit in the background and monitor all computer usage, and delete files that are suspected of infringing copyright.
What the MPAA and RIAA fail to realise is that ISP level spam/virus blocking is almost always optional, in that the user can choose not to have the ISP filter out their emails, and most ISPs do not filter downloads at all. The reason is that filtering tools will always have a high false positive rate.
And all of this requires the tools in question to be able to identify infringing content, when it is hard to establish this even via long and arduous court cases. What the MPAA and RIAA really want through these series of initiatives is to bypass the legal system altogether, so that lawsuits and due process will no longer be necessary, where mere allegations becomes evidence, and suspicion becomes reality.
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