p2pnet - rss feed: IFPI revives DFC DRM
p2pnet.net News:- Just about everyone in the world has heard about the ongoing Sony BMG debacle where the company tried to secretly plant potentially lethal spyware into the computers of people who’d bought its music CDs.
Not only did Sony BMG try to scam its own customers, the software it used to do so also made it possible for the systems to be hijacked by attackers, as well as opening them to a computer virus.
Now here, once again, is Digital File Check, another entertainment cartel-touted DRM (digital restrictions management) application designed to bring consumers to heel. And this time, the other cartel members are involved.
Warping the minds of our children
Schools used to exist exclusively to educate our children, teaching them how to read and write and add and subtract, and telling them about the importance of truth and honesty and freedom of expression.
But that’s no longer the case.
Public and private school systems everywhere are being slowly but emphatically penetrated by the morally bankrupt entertainment and software cartels who are using them to bend the minds of our children to the corporate will, indoctrinating them through phony, blackly cynical ‘education’ programs.
And what’s even more alarming is: well-intentioned staffs and government administrations are actively, and often enthusiastically, helping music, movie and software company employees to walk freely into school classrooms to deliver these self-serving ‘lessons’.
Because in the 21st digital century, schools are becoming marketing divisions where sales and propaganda programs dressed up to mimic genuine lessons are just as likely to be ‘taught’ as the three Rs.
Know IT All For Parents
‘IFPI’ is short for International Federation of Phonographic Industry. It’s owned and operated by Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG, the Big Four Organized Music family, and it’s now leading the way in promoting the Digital File Check, with Hollywood’s MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) in the wings.
The Big Four have numerous similar PR and propaganda units scattered around the world.
“IFPI today hailed the launch in the UK of the new ‘Know IT All For Parents” campaign by Childnet International, the leading children’s internet safety organisation,” says the IFPI in a pseudo press release.
” ‘Know IT All For Parents’ is aimed at helping adults better support their children’s positive and safe use of the internet,” it states.
However, far from teaching positive and safe surfing, the ‘initiative’ is part of a huge, carefully orchestrated world-wide program instituted by the cartels as they try to regain control of what used to be their faithfully compliant consumer bases.
“The campaign will see the distribution of an interactive CD ROM to 100,000 families who, over the next two years, will receive a computer as part of the Government’s Computers for Pupils initiative,” says the IFPI. “This national programme aims to put computers into the homes of pupils who don’t have one, in order to give them the same opportunities as their peers.”
In reality, there’s not a shred of truth in the statement, and there’s absolutely nothing altruistic about the scheme.
DRM means Consumer Control
One of the main purposes of the Know IT All For Parents ‘initiative’ is to get cartel-controlled systems, loaded with phone-home spyware called the Digital File Check, into the homes of consumers in the UK.
And where first it’s the UK, soon it’ll be the world.
www.pro-music.org is an industry owned and operated site launched to pimp the Big Four message online and, “The CD ROM provides information and links to the free software ‘Digital File Check’,” says the IFPI.
It claims the Digital File Check was, “developed by the music sector educational alliance pro-music (www.pro-music.org) to help people ensure that they enjoy music safely and legally on the home computer. and stop illegally file-sharing music and films.
“The internet safety advice which has already been translated into Bengali and Urdu, is presented by themes which relate to family life, such as downloading music, chatting or searching for information. As more and more children are accessing the internet through their mobile phones, there is also a separate section covering safe mobile use.”
But it seems Linux and Mac users are safe from from, “the most impressive piece of useless software I’ve ever seen,” as Brian DeMarzo described it on his demarzo.net.
Pledge of Allegiance
The cartels are also attempting another stomach-turning spin on their already well-established course of trying to con parents into watching and then censoring the activities of their own children.
“A key aim of the CD ROM is to encourage parents to have a dialogue with their children about the internet,” says the IFPI, which is why, “the CD ROM includes an activity centre with quizzes and games that parents and children can do together”.
However, it goes even further, expecting moms and dads to print out a cartel-supplied pledge it calls a “special internet use ‘Family Agreement’ certificate” which, “the family has agreed in relation to safety and responsible use in the home”.
Stay tuned.
[FROM: p2pnet.ca]
Also See:
Sony BMG debacle - Quebec Sony spyware settlement, October 12, 2006
emphatically penetrated - They’re brainwashing our children , October 3, 2006
in the wings - Digital File Check, September 22, 2005
Childnet International - Open letter to parents, July 2, 2006
pseudo press release - IFPI welcomes internet charity’s ‘Know IT All for Parents’ campaign, October 10, 2006
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October 14th, 2006 at 9:36 pm
“One of the main purposes of the Know IT All For Parents ‘initiative’ is to get cartel-controlled systems, loaded with phone-home spyware called the Digital File Check, into the homes of consumers in the UK.”
I’m confused…are these systems just separate, or are they integrated into DVR’s, DVD Players, etc.? If they are just separate systems, I would say, “No thanks.” If they are integrated into DVD players, now’s the chance to import drm-free players to the UK.
“However, it goes even further, expecting moms and dads to print out a cartel-supplied pledge it calls a “special internet use ‘Family Agreement’ certificate” which, “the family has agreed in relation to safety and responsible use in the home”.”
Aww….isn’t that cute. I could see a whole bunch of parents doing that.
October 14th, 2006 at 9:44 pm
wouldn’t it be cheaper for the “organised cri.. ehm music”-cartel if they just send a 2 color black and white leaflet to every parent stating in big letters:
WARNING!!
WATCH YOUR KID! HE CAN BE A SERIOUS FINANCIAL RISK FOR YOU IF WE GO AFTER YOUR OFSPRING IN OUR COMSUMER HEAD HUNTING!
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kdsde
October 14th, 2006 at 10:17 pm
maybe this idea with the family intern”contract” comes also from the RIAA/IFPI lawyers like they formulated the search terms for the “investigators” according to the Bradley Buckles declaration.
when they sue next time british parents (since the musicdownloading kids are not those that pay the bill and so the name of the infringer is not in the lawsuit) RIAA lawyers will deposit the parent if they made the family intern contract and if not then they will be extra punished for not complying with the new law that will be announced next week that requires such a contract as mandatory.
And if the moms and dads did made such a contract with their kid and it turns out the kid broke the contract, then the court where the action against the internet account holder was brought in will automaticly grant the child custody to the RIAA because the Parents are oviously unfit to take care of their child.
The RIAA will then “educate” this child in the cartels own “Musicconsumer rehabilitation boot camp for troubled teens and toddlers” till it is old enough to either be released into a life as a mindlessly, latest charts consuming and for every listening instance extra paying broccoli, or if this child turns out to be one of the rare cases of being a true music lover or even more rare a gifted music creator then it will be held unter RIAA observation till the court granted the RIAA motion to extract the tympanic membranes.
Of course the expenses for such a camp and the operation must be paid by the convicted parents as part of their punishment.
Those “devestated” Recordcompanies should not have to pay for these measures. They are damaged enough because of those kids and those poor families that refuse to pay the resonable price for some crappy music!
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kdsde
October 14th, 2006 at 11:01 pm
it is simply a lame “search tool” that searches for files with extensions for pictures, music or video files and for the installation files of filesharing software.
If you will this nice windows search doggy trained for RIAA demands so that computerilliterate parents can find the stuff too.
And its not really new, maybe the guys in the nederlands are a bit slower
Unfortunately the computer illiterate parents that only speak german would have a few problems to follow the instructions.
The flash programmer either intentionally or unintentionally switched the default values for the “next, next next agreed”buttons in the german version
watch the flash tutorial under
http://www.ifpi.org/dfc/downloads/dfc.html and choose as language german.
in the english tutorial the flashanimation shows you how you should change the default value to install from “I disagree” to “I agree”
If you use the german tutorial language the animation shows how the mouse pointer points to the german “Ich stimme nicht zu” = “I disagree”
October 14th, 2006 at 11:20 pm
Those parents in italy might have the same problems I guess ….
And those moms and dads in poland could not even choose their own language if they follow the mouse pointer instructions
October 15th, 2006 at 12:43 am
Don’t you ever get tired of whining?
October 15th, 2006 at 6:58 am
wrong place to ask this question I guess;
It’s the MAFIAA that seems to not getting tired of constantly whining, even when they show in the second half of their annual sales whin… ehm sales reports steadily growing figures in teh market for “digital sales”
Yet still they whine in the first half of the report how they lost sales.
And if Jon (must do because MAFIAA don’t stop!) reports their tries to propaganda brainwash the people over and over again now targeting the youngest and most vulnerable then pointing these brainwashing propaganda out is NOT whining!
MAFIAA is jusing these days the same techniques that Josef Goebbels used to tell germans how bad jews are (of course the MAFIAA has these days even better masscommunication abilities with their criminal organisation owned massmedia outlets)
And the french resistance back in the days were just whining and lovers of freedom of life (and culture) then and now against those criminals are just whiners!
Welcome Mr. MAFIAA-troll!
October 15th, 2006 at 8:02 pm
They have to try to fool anyone but we will resist as hard as we can.You should too.Othervice your childs can be zombified by megacorporations.That’s fate worse than death IMHO.So, spread the word.Show peoples that the best way is to think they own brain, not listen what other scams saying.