Dtecnet, the new RIAA Black Hole
p2pnet news view | RIAA News:- The couple on the left make a dodgy looking duo, don’t you think?
Almost like a photo from a police blotter.
Hard-core file sharers for sure and they’re also the stars of a moribund Hollywood anti-P2P effort organised by Dtecnet, a Danish company created to cash in on corporate entertainment industry attacks on their own customers.
As p2pnet reported many moons ago, Dtecnet’s chairman was (and still is, for all we know) Johan Schluter, a member of the Big Music record label cartel’s IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry).
Not only but also, the Danish Anti-Piracy Group’s Niels Bo Jorgensen was, and probably still is, a board member.
Now it’s a BS-slinger for Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG’s RIAA, stepping into the black hole left by MediaSentry, the desperately inept online scalp-hunter recently fired by the Big 4 extortion unit.
Did You Get a Notice?
The RIAA is currently being falsely accused of having come up with the plan to ‘persuade’ ISPs to do its dirty work for it.
However, the distinction belongs to Hollywood’s MPAA, which achieve that a long time back, evidenced by the text to the pic on the right, caried on the MPAA’s Respect Copyrights site.
“Did You Get a Notice?” – it asks, going on »»»
If you’ve found your way to this Web site, it is likely because your Internet service provider orâif you’re a studentâthe college or university you attend, has notified you that your Internet account has been used to illegally copy and/or distribute copyrighted movies or television shows. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is dedicated to fostering a safe, legal online environment where consumers have many choices for viewing the movies and TV shows they love, while addressing the growing problem of illegal content on the Internet. If you received a notice of copyright infringement, you likely have questions about what you should do now and how you can prevent this activity in the future. This site is designed to help answer those questions and to provide information to help you find the content you want legally.
And Dtecnet is still running an online ‘scan’ site designed to get parents to act as Hollywood copyright agents by spying on their own children and deleting content they suspect may be offensive to the studios.
“Helping parents around the world,” it says. “Search your Computer today for illegal media content!”
And it’s already conveniently configured to allow RIAA suits to scam parents (or school administrators, or whoever) into checking their kids’ computers.
It has a handy little scan button which activates software to peer into your system on behalf of the MPAA and having done that, gives users a report which looks like this »»»
Audio Files Found : Click here to view result
File name Size FolderPossibly Infringing Movie Files Found : Click here to view result
File name Size FolderOther Video Files Found : Click here to view result
File name Size FolderOther Files Found: Click here to view result
Other files?
In other words, anyone who’s stupid enough to actually use this Dtecnet ‘scanner’ is virtually giving the company carte blanche to go fishing around around inside the computer in question.
Then they can delete anything which might upset the labels. Or studios. Or software companies.
Says the blurb »»»
Digital File Check is a simple educational tool that aims to guide computer users, many of whom might be new to the world of online movies and music.
DFC helps to show how they, or their families, colleagues and friends, can enjoy music and movies legally and responsibly without risking legal action by copyright holders.
It also promises, “The information generated by DFC is made available ONLY to the program’s user and is NOT transmitted or reported to DtecNet, the MPAA or any other body”.
You think?
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January 14th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
If I ran this on my server, the software would explode.
stw
January 14th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
hmmm, looks like Digital File Check is Windows only (tries to download an MSI). Yeah, that’ll work well on all those Macs & linux boxes…
January 14th, 2009 at 10:57 pm
Dtecnet doesn’t even have a wikipedia article about them yet. Either they’re very new or they know how to do their scrubbing.
January 15th, 2009 at 2:26 am
i have some nfo for them, you get on this side of doing things to people you better watch your backs
eggs have no furry like a yoke scorned.
AND these noobs are just a bunch a twits that got screwed out of p2p cause they cant share properly and so formed a lil hacker group and the riaa/mpaa legitimizes it.
well you come at my privacy or anyone in the united hackers association you will get a real cyber war one that will see all there friends get wiped off the map PERMANENTLY.
we got nfo on media sentry and we’ll get your stuff too dickheadnet that’s there new name.
As to parenting MAYBE just maybe me and my kids and other parents and kids like p2p sharing after all its a hell of a lot cheaper then what htey spill out, and safer too no drm to SONY ROOTKIT my computer to pieces, and freedom to do with what i want when i want.
and its always a warm fuzzy feeling to share isnt it.
January 15th, 2009 at 8:49 am
” Dtecnet doesnât even have a wikipedia article about them yet. Either theyâre very new or they know how to do their scrubbing.”
Or it is an old company under a new name. After all, MPAA (or maybe RIAA?) was already caught infringing copyrights of Ubuntu and violating the GPL license when they distributed their “anti-piracy tool” based on Ubuntu without offering the source code.
January 15th, 2009 at 8:53 am
I google’d their address and it shows a waterfront parking lot, odd.
January 18th, 2009 at 10:24 am
regarding the reference to wikipedia, don’t be so naive. You can buy an edit on wikipedia by making a $50K “donation.” I wonder how much you’d have to pay to protect yourself from the deletionists on wikipedia.
March 5th, 2011 at 2:51 am
“created to cash in on corporate entertainment industry attacks on their own customers.”…
What? If you are downloading it then you are not a “CUSTOMER”
I’m not defending either side, but think before you write something like that