RIAA Wants Gov. to Delete Your Illegal Downloads

[Guest]

I'll tell you what: I will agree to this IF and WHEN the RIAA and the MPAA and BMI and ASCAP are ALL audited EVERY YEAR to make sure that the artists involved actually get their royalty payments. Unless THEIR computers are open, there is NO reason why ours should have to be. The music industry (especially) has for decades been hauled into court by artists who are getting screwed by them and usually lose BIG TIME.

Sorry, but to trust those who have proved themselves to be crooks every time they turn around is a fool's game. I have NO intention of trusting them for a freaking heartbeat, let alone with the contents of my computer. And for the record, I am a professional musician (for the last 35 years), and am thoroughly disgusted by those in charge of my industry. Crooks and thieves, one and all.

 

[Guest]

I agree with this. Further more, I think that a program should be installed on all computers that will electrocute anyone who signs on to a bit torrent.

 

[kissmeass]

How many folks in the RIAA and MPAA have EVER paid every cent of their taxes due....after a little cheating or entering a few lies on their tax returns? Me thinks that the above orgs., doth protest too much!

 

[Guest]

Ban all kosher food!! Then RIAA will move..

 

[Guest]

We are still in the late cowboy/early Model-T days of the internet. Wait another decade or two, and it will seem so ridiculous that we could ever doubt there'd be complete transparency of all such materials, i.e. stolen copyrighted material, that our grandchildren's kids will pee their pants. Look, folks, ten years ago it was fun to download old stuff from back in the day, but if you don't think new content henceforth is going to be rife with digital guard dogs, well ho ho ho, Santa's got a big Panopticon waiting to eyeball your 'nads in the big house.

 

[bob132]

I have a pirated copy of a movie in my house.. will that mean they will next lobby to open my back door/window and remove said infringing copy from my premises?

 

[Kewlx25]

they should pass a law to make it illegal to discuss clearly unconstitutional ideas in politics. punishable with prison time.

 

[dratman]

Remember, these are the geniuses who thought they could force every electronics company in the world to add DRM circuitry to every A-to-D converter ever sold! That way, they imagined, they could even stop pirates from re-recording from an analog source. Delusional, eh?

 

[Guest]

well I see in the very near future a place where we download stuff off bit torrent onto a thumb drive then transfer it over to our "library" computer that never gets hooked to the net...problem solved

 

[Guest]

One word.... Linux.... Not a Day of spy-ware here!

 

[Guest]

Sharing is a GOOD thing.

-God

 

[Guest]

Go ahead. Ten minutes later it will be blocked from some dude in a basement in Arizona. Then uploaded to the net for the rest of us. You can't win. You won't win.

An American

 

[echoniner]

This is an outrageous breach of privacy! The RIAA and MPAA have absolutely no business on my computer whatsoever. If this actually comes to fruition, one can only imagine as to how far they will go.

 

[Guest]

I think I would rather live in Hitler's house in Nazi germany than accept this.

 

[lurchdb78]

Ah yes but, there are so many things that can be set in Windows that would disable everything they listed in the article that aside from someone taking the time to specifically target each individual computer and gain access forcefully it would prove a huge burden to the parties involved in the data destruction. While there are definitely people capable of doing it most of them do not work for the government. Our sense of privacy is about as broken as the ignored and illegible writing's of the original constitution.

 

[bobbox1980]

RIAA and MPAA must be working for the NWO and their Prison Planet agenda. Any decent American citizen or company would not push this line of unconstitutional infringement on our unalienable rights.

Warrantless monitoring of internet connections and deletions of data off of people's private property is not anything even close to legal or constitutional and is a complete violation of due process of law.

Do we citizens have legal recourse against the RIAA and MPAA? We need to stop this from going any farther and send a message to the RIAA and MPAA with a nice lawsuit bitchslap upside their collective "heads" and by heads I mean asses since their heads are obviously up their asses.

 

[Guest]

Check out FreeNet (or Tor). FreeNet (freenetproject.org) is the ultimate in security, but Tor (www.torproject.org) is much easier to setup.

If you want to encrypt your drive in case the pigs come knocking on your door, there's Truecrypt (www.truecrypt.org).

 

[Guest]

people
these greed ridden junkies have seen the light, they realise that the next great medium to sell their warez is the very same as they are trying to condemn, make no mistake about thier goals, it is nothing less than the complete ownership of what we now call the internet, we have a choice, resist these mofo's and produce our own open source mediatainment or submit to thier greed, but let me leave you with a thought, these rapist's of society and culture have had the audacity of calling thier representations of humanity copyrighted material, since when does anyone other than the author or authors get to own such material, in short you and i are the owners of our lives and the culture we create, not the studio's that merely try to re-create it, i never sold my soul to anyone.

 

[kentsmithnz]

I think someone is smoking something.

 

[Guest]

Never going to happen. No court in the world would allow that, and it is stupid to ask. This entire article must be a joke.