MPAA & RIAA's dystopian wish-list for the US gov't: spyware, censorship, physical searches and SWAT

[Are_grits_groceries]

The MPAA and RIAA have submitted their master plan for enforcing copyright to the new Office of Intellectual Property Enforcement. As the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Richard Esguerra points out, it's a startlingly distopian work of science fiction. The entertainment industry calls for:
■spyware on your computer that detects and deletes infringing materials;
■mandatory censorware on all Internet connections to interdict transfers of infringing material;
■border searches of personal media players, laptops and thumb-drives;
■international bullying to force other countries to implement the same policies;
■and free copyright enforcement provided by Fed cops and agencies (including the Department of Homeland Security!).

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This is perhaps the most revealing of the proposals: big Hollywood studios deputizing the FBI and Department of Homeland Security to provide taxpayer-supported muscle for summer blockbuster films. Jokes have been made about SWAT team raids on stereotypical file-sharers in college dorm rooms — but this entertainment industry request to "interdict...and to react swiftly with enforcement actions" brings that joke ridiculously close to reality.
Much more detail at this link _ http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/entertainment-industrys-dystopia-future

They need to up their meds. They also need to rethink their industries, and the way money is made on their products. Theft is just going to get worse with advances in hardware and software.

I'm not sure what the answer is but they have lost the war even if they have won a battle or two.

[Grand Taurean]

1. Not going to happen

Border security has greater problems and installing spyware may be illegal.
The entertainment industry has lost this war, as you said.

I find nothing funny about joking about using SWAT teams(those who are too afraid to get in on the ground in a real war zone in foreign lands) to terrorize people who non-violent crimes.

[Chulanowa]

2. If Versace can live without sending swat teams after Los Angeles street vendors...

Then the MPAA can live without gooning people in theaters over cameraphones.

Maybe they oughtta come up with film and music that people are willing to pay for? Why would I want to see the A-team movie, when I can just watch the original A-team episodes on youtube?

[RoyGBiv]

3. Well, we must protect the artists ...

:sarcasm:

The more you tighten your grip, Bainwol, the more electronic bits will slip through your fingers.

[FiveGoodMen]

4. Once upon a time, the mafia only expected a cut from gambling and prostitution...

[Echo In Light]

5. .