RIAA Wants Gov. to Delete Your Illegal Downloads

[WHComp]

I have been buying music and movies legally for the last couple years, I am about to start downloading it free again just because the RIAA is so over the top.

 

[Guest]

Yeah, but that only works for Windows and OSX, surely Linux will give them the finger if they even come near a Linux distro with that bullshit.

*hugs Ubuntu*

But really, when people truly start to value their freedom, they'll flock to Linux en mass.

 

[Guest]

Can the US citizens, as a whole, sue RIAA/MPAA for privacy infringment?

 

[joytech22]

All i can say is, Good luck with that.
If anything, hackers will target THEM!

 

[keczapifrytki]

I am also getting tired of this lobbying bullsh*t. How about we make lobbying illegal unless it represents some real americans, not rock stars and movie stars.
Also, like many said before" BUY USED. Maybe that will teach them to shut the f*ck up once in a while.

 

[mdillenbeck]

I am wondering how long before people start taking affront against the growing power of Intellectual Property laws and engage in armed rebellion (not that I am an advocate of violent revolution). After all, when your seed bank is owned by Monsanto even though natural wind drift and a careless neighbor infected you crops, when a person can own rights to a certain way of investing using existing laws tax laws, when you can't patent a bumblebee but can patent every single gene that makes up a bumblebee, and when you sell product where the person has no rights to the information/media/reasonable backup then something is seriously wrong.

If only a strong enough movement that would last a decade could sweep the US political system and change it... but really, when was the last time a youth movement stuck to its ideals rather than having everyone in it eventually sell out?

As for me, my embargo on music continues. No new CDs/downloads, no used CDs (as this means someone bought it new and supported the RIAA), and no listening to the radio/internet radio (which funnels ad revenue to the RIAA). How many are like me? Maybe .000001% of the market (if we're lucky)? Alas, it would take more like 80-90% of the market to do so - but people feel entitled to their music and so buy it. Here's an idea, go buy an instrument and start making your own music. Record it and distribute it online. Give us an RIAA alternative source of entertainment... oh, but that would require delaying gratification. That will never happen, especially in the USA.

 

[Shadow703793]

[citation][nom]Deathbyc4[/nom]Can the US citizens, as a whole, sue RIAA/MPAA for privacy infringment?[/citation]
Hmmm.... now that you mentioned it.... :lol:

 

[Montezuma]

I hope the MPAA and RIAA knows that the measures they are suggesting violate many state's laws on computer accessing. Since these entities are private citizen and not government bodies, in the eyes of the law, these two entities would be violating so many laws that they would cause themselves to imploded from the legal cost.

They would force me to bring great harm to their networks when they try to attack my network. This would be like the RIAA and/or the MPAA trying to enter a person's home. If they did that to me, they would be looking down the business end of a lot of weapons. Of course, they are free to try it.

The only people allowed to forcefully enter your home or other property is government agents with lawful search and/or arrest warrants. That or if it is Publisher's Clearinghouse. They can come into my home anytime with one of those big checks.

 

[wicko]

LOL good luck RIAA/MPAA, you're going to need it!

 

[JD13]

The only people with rights these days are those with huge bank accounts namely; big business. They control the government.

 

[lauxenburg]

I hope some BAMF antivirus comes out to stop this mofo.

 

[Hunter844]

Wait...you can download illegal content from the internets? Why wasn't I told!

 

[taiso]

let's just say organized crime wouldn't take kindly to people attempting to seize control of their machines and disrupt their business. cause as anyone would know a big part of piracy in other countries is controlled by mobsters. lol good luck trying to get russia or china to join you corporate idiots.

 

[ravewulf]

And how do they propose to identify what is theirs and what is ours?

No, seriously.

How do they detect a movie when it's likely been re-encoded to a different, more efficient codec and put in a different media container?

Are they really this delusional and idiotic that they think this isn't going to be rejected almost instantly?

 

[chickenhoagie]

'Law abiding citizen' goes cyber!

 

[micron]

This news is astounding! I'm wondering who are the people who thought of these proposals? George Orwell was way ahead of his time.

 

[drwho1]

This is going too far, my PC's are just that Personal Computers
and I will not stand for this abuse.

If this sort of thing actually goes forward I would be forced to disconnect my PC's from the internet, NOT because I got anything to hide but because I don't want any group, agency, goverment to be snooping around.

Note: I wonder what hardware manufacturer would feel if this sort of thing would end up hurting the PC hardware bussines

 

[phillipmeyers99]

If this goes thru i will start copying my entire collection on DVD-R's. I will buy 50 Packs, then i will just start giving them away, leaveing them arounrd town what ever it takes. Giving 4.7GB away at a time as opposed to DL it over serval hours is a much more effective way to destroy the SOB's. Right now people are passive, and the should be happy people sip from the stream. When the DVD'r "pass it along" movement takes off and the movment spreads they will lose Billions when people Chug. The RIAA exist and has power because we allow them to have it by using Downloads that can be tracked. Why people just don't share via DVD r or even via flash drive or Hard drive is beyound me.

 

[athlondude]

I think would fall under the guidelines of Illegal Search and Siezure, they shouldnt be allowed to do it to just anyone without probable cause.

 

[jsc]

norb8 wrote:

Border scans of my hard drive and portable usb sticks? I'm fairly sure that that falls under the unreasonable search and seizure policy in the constitutions of Canada and the US.

TSA can do that now.