MPAA releases anti-piracy app
p2pnet news view | Kids & Kartels:- Lawsuits aren’t the only things just launched by the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America).
It’s also released its new Movie Studio Piracy software to allow parents – or anyone else who gets hold of it – to scour computers looking for content to delete on behalf of the movie studios.
It doesn’t seem possible they could actually get away with this, does it? But that’s Hollywood.
The application was developed by DtecNet Software, a Danish software firm whose chairman is, by an amazing coincidence, Johan Schluter, a member of the Big Music record label cartel’s IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry), and which also boasts the Danish Anti-Piracy Group’s Niels Bo Jorgensen as a board member.
And the ap seems to be about as @#$%ed up as the entertainment industry’s attempts to regain control of what used to be its customer base by suing them and trying to kill anything which looks even remotely like competition.
The MPAA’s Parent File Scan is supposed to allow parents see if a kid’s PC has ‘illegal’ movie files on it.
We had a look and it doesn’t include anything you have to sign declaring you’re a Mum or a Dad before it lets you DL it. So presumably, kids with Orwellian mentalities can also scan their parents PCs and report them to the MPAA for ‘violations’.
dslreports has a number of posts from people who’ve tried the software out.
One, from hbguys, says, “I just installed this on a clean machine with only Windows XP on it. It found the Windows default WAV files as copyrighted material and it wanted to delete them. Boy that is great software. What will they think of next? I know software that tells parents to delete the Program Files folder because P2P could possibly be installed into it. Or how about offering to reformat your hard drive so there is no possibility of downloading copyright material?”
Another says, “The program should be changed to ‘MediaKiller’ thats all it does is search for all *.mp3/*.wav and video extensions and asks you to delete all of them. What a program. Thanks MPAA.”
But that’s no surprise.
“The program does not distinguish between legal and illegal copies, as it is up to the user to determine, whether the files found by the program have been acquired legally, or whether the material should be deleted,” says the MPAA.
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See:-
amazing coincidence – Hollywood sues file sharers, p2pnet, November 16, 2004, 2005
posts - MPAA Software For Parents, dslreports, January 27, 2005
January 27th, 2005 at 5:07 pm
So, they took the Windows search function and made a different GUI for it.
Such innovation.
January 27th, 2005 at 5:21 pm
So the MPAA expect the p2p apps writes to filter out ‘illegal copyrighted files’ (BTW I don’t believe there is such a thing… hmm who’s got the patent on 1’s and 0’s?) from users shares, but they cannot identify the same files on a users system. Even though the user has run this software and given it a list of files?
Way to go MPAA!
January 27th, 2005 at 6:05 pm
Does MPAA think that parents, are their employees??
If parents scanned their children pc`s for illegal stuff, that would they would be doing, just acting like MPAA employees!!!
Good one MPAA, Sue the parents, and make parents ur servants, but making them scan their children HD`s!!!!.
And who knows, wheter this software is reporting back, to big Mamma.
January 27th, 2005 at 6:47 pm
It seems that this program will even delete mp3s which were ripped from a CD. It’s not illegal to create mp3s from a CD you purchased. Does this identify mp3s purchased on Napster as well?
Anyone who uses this is either an idiot or very uninformed.
Drake
January 27th, 2005 at 6:50 pm
“ParentFileScan_setup.msi” eh? Sounds more like “Thought_Crime_Betrayer-Sterilizer.exe”.
“Hey parents, if you even think your kids might be infringing on our copyrights don’t hesitate to delete first, ask questions later. Heck, if you find a whole bunch of ILLEGAL files you should probably turn your child/children over to us for prosecution and re-education. It’s the right thing to do, trust us.”
“Hey kids, if you even think your parents might be infringing on our copyrights make sure to rat them out. Just drop us an e-mail, we’ll take care of the rest. It’s the right thing to do, trust us.”
January 27th, 2005 at 11:59 pm
“to big Mamma”
too funny!! thanks for the laugh.
TT
January 28th, 2005 at 4:02 am
Thyese clowns are really a piece of work!!!!
January 28th, 2005 at 6:29 am
OMG MPAA are pirates and stole from Microsoft!!!!
January 30th, 2005 at 3:45 pm
is there a linux port?
…..what about us linux users! we want all the anti-piracy and DMA software too!
January 30th, 2005 at 9:18 pm
If you want my thoughts. I think its spyware and or a virus and you should treat it like one. its a waste of space on your harddrive resource hog this app should delete itself.
I bet it reports what it finds on your PC along with your IP and ISP and guess who comes to your door and wants to sue your ass.
August 26th, 2005 at 8:22 am
A member of piratgruppen.org have made a program that disables Parent Control. But you can also just hide you music or movies in a folder in the “c:\windows\system32\”-folder. Then it will not befound!