SafeMedia saves America
p2pnet news | Advertising:- “We are literally laying off people due to piracy, it is a national epidemic,” said Mike Robinson.
Who’s he?
The vice president of the MPAA’s US anti-piracy operations and he was one of those present at a product promotional-cum-marketing event staged (and we do mean staged) by an outfit called SafeMedia which claims it can do, “what the individual and combined multi-billion-dollar might of the entertainment cartels haven’t been able to do with unstinting help from suborned governments and police forces around the world,” as p2pnet posted in March.
Now, “every industry in LA County and the country is at risk from aerospace chips on the high end to technology and computers,” warned LA mayor Antonio Villaraigosa at the SafeMedia laugh-in.
Aerospace chips on the high end to technology and computers, eh?
Nasty.
SafeMedia is marketing its dodgy Clouseau (Yup – same as the bumbling cop in the Pink Panther series) application to the ever gullible executives who run the entertainment spindustries.
Clouseau is guaranteed to stop file sharing, swears SafeMedia.
“California congressional delegation, Motion Picture Assn. of America (MPAA), Recording Industry Assn. of America (RIAA), law enforcement and music industry executives huddled in a weeklong brainstorming meetings to solve the growing problem of counterfeiting and piracy threats to America’s economy,” says a SafeMedia fluff release.
But not to worry because:
“SafeMedia has developed business solutions combining P2P Disaggregator technology (P2PD) and a Digital Internet Distribution Solution (DIDS) that prevents contaminated P2P networks from indiscriminately accessing users’ computers,” SafeMedia boss Safwat Fahmy told an awestruck audience.
“It eliminates illegal file sharing of copyrighted material, protecting the users from identity theft, spyware, malware, viruses and reducing the bandwidth cost to ISPs.”
P2P Disaggregator technology (P2PD) and a Digital Internet Distribution Solution (DIDS)? Coooooool! Then there’s the Dibubobulating Ingratalator.
The company also has Safejoy, a, “global multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, multi-cultural web portal designed to safely and securely download on-demand copyrighted digital material, providing that the user is protected by P2PD technology”.
Villaraigosa and council President-elect Wendy Greuel, “kicked off the week of educational and media events,” says the puff piece.
In February, Greuel and Villaraigosa said they’d, “announce a task force … of elected leaders and industry representatives who will examine ways to combat piracy, possibly through tougher judicial sentences for offenders,”.
Villaraigosa is, among other things, a keen supporter of the Hollywood-inspired introduction of MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) intellectual property merit badges to the LA Scouting movement.
It’s well known that every boy and girl in the Scouting movement really needs to know the ins and outs of intellectual property law in detail.
Oh Yea – “Lawmaker Proposes To Strengthen Anti-Counterfeiting and Internet Piracy Efforts,” says the headline to the SafeMedia burble.
What’s that all about?
“Counterfeiting and piracy are costing the U.S. economy about $250 billion annually, have led to the loss of more than 750,000 American jobs and needlessly expose consumers to dangerous and defective products,” SafeMedia has Hollywood Howard Berman, “who moderated the Town Hall meeting, along with 33rd District Congresswoman Diane Watson and 27th District Congressman Brad Sherman,” saying.
“Representative Sherman also believes that Congress has to start enforcing intellectual and copyright laws at the borders with more investigators, prosecutors and federal trade agents,” says SafeMedia, quoting him as observing:
Six to nine percent of the world trade has pirated goods from auto parts to Barbie Dolls.
If the real Barbie Dolls have lead paint, just imagine what the counterfeit dolls have.
Just imagine ………
Don’t bother to stay tuned.
Also See:
p2pnet – Clouseau and the RIAA, May 9, 2007
dodgy Clouseau – EFF unravels SafeMedia’s Clouseau, April 11, 2007
SafeMedia – Lawmaker Proposes To Strengthen Anti-Counterfeiting and Internet Piracy Efforts, August 28, 2007
tougher judicial sentences – New ‘piracy’ shock-horror study, February 18, 2007
intellectual property merit badges – MPAA corrupts US Scouts, October 21, 2006
Hollywood Howard Berman – ISPs as copyright cops, August 28, 2007
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August 28th, 2007 at 9:54 am
This guy is either 1.stupid….2. retarded or 3.BOTH….I’ll take #3 BOTH as an answer for $25,000! LOL!
August 28th, 2007 at 10:25 am
“We are literally laying off people due to piracy, it is a national epidemic,”
Good! Fire all of them. This bag of shit of Robinson, This parasite of Chitman, This slamy worm of glueman, all of them all of them! out! This nation does not need parasites. Prepare the feathers and tar.
August 28th, 2007 at 10:25 am
In order for corporations turning the internet into a market place, they will feel they have to tame it first. Sort of like what happened to the Wild West of America. None of them will feel like they can compete with free.
This is what you are seeing with the continual onslought of the infringement cops and the constant nibbling a bit at a time over internet freedoms. What they see as acceptable conditions will result in the death of the internet as we know it.
At that time, I won’t have much need of the internet but you can be sure I will carry a life long hatred for those responcible for such changes. It is already to that point with the most vocal that push for such changes now. You can be sure that those companies that are behind these sort of actions already are on that list. My reaction is simply to never purchase again their products as long as they behave in a manner I disagree with.
How odd it is that in the same day, on the same page of this site, you can read of all the woes of lack of money brings them while at the same time reading how many millions they have made in profit for the quarter. Makes you wonder just how dumb they think we are. Of course, this play from the play book isn’t for us, it’s for those in Washington and elsewhere that really matter to them in influancing what they are after for today. Tomorrow will be a new set of wants.
In this they expose to everyone but it seems our isolated pro-corporate lawmakers, just how stupid and fake the whole arguement is. Never do they look at their own shortcomings but rather they look for a reason to blame that pushes the agenda they wish to have seen.
When and if this comes about, you can kiss my internet connection business goodbye. I have no more wish to be on such a tightly regulated communication line than I wish to have tv in my house, either public or pay for. I get neither nor want either at present. They aren’t worth paying for and not worth the time it wastes to view. Their bias views and what the media megagiants think is entertainment long ago parted with what I consider entertainment.
August 28th, 2007 at 10:31 am
“Six to nine percent of the world trade has pirated goods from auto parts to Barbie Dolls.”
Yes! I just downloaded a set of tire for my car on Kazzaa. Cool!
August 28th, 2007 at 10:36 am
“you can kiss my internet connection business goodbye”
No but this is the cool part:
If they manage to steal internet, we will develop a second open source internet running on wifi. The software taht alow that aready exist leting computers with a wireless card to nework directly to near buy computer without carrier.
And guess what? It will be faster than internet.
August 28th, 2007 at 10:46 am
Jon, now you wil be sued by Matell, Sherman and Berman, UnSafeMedia and Villaraigosa
August 28th, 2007 at 10:51 am
“And guess what? It will be faster than internet.”
sorry but how would you cross the atlantic with home wifi? and as wifi will only suport 253~ computers or nodes it will be a small internet replacement.
August 29th, 2007 at 6:39 am
Hey Jon,
Did you actually read SafeMedia’s press release? Here’s a surprise…This was NOT a SafeMedia sponsored event NOR did they even participate. SafeMedia is a bunch of HACKS and the MPAA & RIAA know it!!! http://mediaguru-mayopr.blogspot.com/2007/08/lawmaker-proposes-to-strengthen-anti.html is a typical SafeMedia BS job, splashing quotes all sorts of lawmakers and trade association officials, but never an endorsement or merely a reference to SafeMedia, from outside people. Simply PR spin at its hackiest!!!
You give these Jackasses WAY too much credit…
DYH
August 29th, 2007 at 9:02 am
“We are literally laying off people due to piracy, it is a national epidemic,”
Shouldn’t that be, we are laying off people so we can pay less out making even more profit, and we are choosing to blame piracy cause it makes a great scapegoat?
And really Jon you should stop bugging them, you really distract them from important work, like counting their imaginary money.
August 29th, 2007 at 9:15 am
‘You give these Jackasses WAY too much credit…”
Yup. You’re right. (Blush) I try but I’m always doing three or four stories at the same time and I got this wrong. (Hangs head in shame.)
And having said that, I should also take this opportunity to humbly apologise to Sherman, Villaraigosa, Greuel, the MPAA, unnamed law enforcement folks, etc and so on, for even thinking they’d be seen anywhere near the likes of SafeMedia.
Cheers!
August 29th, 2007 at 10:08 am
Jon,
You are a Gentleman and a Scholar.
Best!
DYH
August 29th, 2007 at 8:35 pm
I find it interesting that one: you did not attend, two you likely did not read the news release and three-your facts are wrong, which is why editors and critics like yourself give blogs a bad name. I write on the media and maybe I should go through all of your stories like you do and reveal just how stupid your information is not to mention how sloppy and inaccurate.
SafeMedia did not sponsor the event. I read the news release and attended the weeklong event. It was put on not by the what you inaccurately reported, but by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in conjunction with “US Anti-Piracy Awareness Week.” The reason the MPAA, RIAA, LA Mayor and Wendy Greuel were on the panel is because they formed the task force to educate the uneducated people like yourself on the loss of jobs and wages due to counterfeiting and piracy.
SafeMedia only attended, they did not sponsored or put on the event as your reported. At least Google the news next time you try to do a half decent job in reporting an event. I have nothing against critics, but Yellow Journalistic critics in my opinion are far worse than a liar, cheat or thief. You lost my credibility with you. I see your stuff in the past, also went nowhere fast. You need to go to school to learn Journalism 101. #1 rule – attribution before assertion.
August 30th, 2007 at 7:51 am
Reply to Post Above:
First, I find it quite amusing you call yourself a writer. Your grammar and sentence structure are, at best, atrocious.
Second, Not only is your post ironic, but it is downright hypocritical. You indicted Jon for not reading the release, yet you failed to read and ‘attribute’ the post immediately preceding yours. At least Jon had the integrity to admit, to his embarrassment, he erred when originally proclaiming SafeMedia sponsored the event in question.
Third, you are obviously a SafeMedia apologist; from which I would hazard to speculate in some way or form you are receiving financial consideration from the company. Nevertheless, it is safe to assume that you are intimately familiar with SafeMedia and their marketing and PR efforts. Those efforts amount to a slew of press releases that dish out highest form of hyperbole and dubious juxtaposition of statements from ‘authorities’ outside SafeMedia; which is simply perceived as PR pulp.
Furthermore, SafeMedia has yet to independently prove any of its product claims in any environment, let alone in true production. Additionally, SafeMedia has ZERO endorsements from anyone or entity in academia, the rights holder or telecommunications industry.
Why? Because SafeMedia purveys FBOS (Flaming Bag of S#!t) technology…by presenting would be customers, and their influencers (e.g. politicians) with the sense of urgency of a fire; and at the end of the day all they have is feces on their shoes with little else to show for it. The funny thing is that the MPAA, RIAA, et. al. are well aware of this, yet SafeMedia and MAYO persists with their bimonthly amateur-hour screeds.
I am no fan of the majority of perspectives levied by p2pnet, and do not fancy myself as a writer. However, do know, and loathe, intellectual dishonesty when I see it; and, Sir, your post above is a prime example.
I leave you with a sentiment expressed by my favorite quote from your post:
“You lost my credibility with you”
Cordially,
MNG