p2pnet - rss feed: MPAA p2p file share weapon
p2pnet.net News:- Yankee Group senior analyst Mike Goodman has questioned the major movie studios’ Seek and Destroy weapon.
And GartnerG2 research director Mike McGuire told TechNewsWorld the message that parents may need to check their children’s computers, “might be muddling too far into the family dynamic”.
It’s got, “some pretty volatile PR implications,” McGuire is quoted as saying. “The implication of kind of snooping to some degree is [not] a particularly healthy way to deal with this challenge.”
The Not-So-Magnificent Seven - Disney, Warner Bros, MGM, Universal, Fox, Paramount and Sony - say they’re planning to introduce software that would effectively have parents acting as movie industry enforcers against their own children.
Fathers and mothers will theoretically act on the movie industry’s behalf by using the software to poke around in their kids’ computers, finding and deleting file-sharing apps and “illegal” movie and music files.
As MPAA ( (Motion Picture Association of America) boss Dan Glickman phrases it, “Many parents are concerned about what their children have downloaded and where they’ve downloaded it from. They will find this tool to be an excellent resource.”
Ironically, the vaunted MPAA Seek and Destroy software wasn’t even made in the US. It’s a Danish product.
Goodman also says in suing people who share movies online, the movie industry is repeating mistakes already made by the Big Four music label cartel.
“If it hasn’t done a lot on the music side, what makes them think it’s going to have a different effect on the movie side?” Goodman asked, quoted in the TechNewsWorld report.
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See:-
industry enforcers - Hollywood sues file sharers, p2pnet, November 16, 2004
repeating mistakes - MPAA Fights Film Swapping with Suits and Software, November 17, 2004
November 19th, 2004 at 12:18 am
Nothing is too low for these bastards. And the sickening thing is, they keep getting away with it.
What was that about America being the land of equal opporunity and justice? America is the Land of Lies.
Morg
November 19th, 2004 at 3:56 am
I guess if this program “destroys” all “illegal” content, then some of Windows’ own files are in the queue for destruction.
See:
http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/10931
November 20th, 2004 at 3:57 pm
This “pirate stuff” cleaner makes me laugh ! If it works (what I still doubt) the only effect of it will be to boost the sale of CD-RW that kids will use to backup their pirated stuff before their parents remove it from their computers.
Besides this, those guys forgot that not only kids share (c)ed stuff on P2P networks… They also forgot that britney_spears___toxic.mp3 could also just show a clear evidence of bad musical tastes but not be a copyright infrigement (ever heard of Fair use ?)