Heaven forbid they finance a multimillion-dollar research laboratory to speed the development of new ways to distribute their products at reasonable prices, and come away smelling like roses while making even more money than they ever made before by appealing to what the masses want. No, the big wigs in control of these operations feel they’ve been given a black eye and want payback. They take everything personally (the rich, famous, and spoiled often do due to an over inflated sense of self importance) and thus hand down directives from on high dictating the entire entertainment industry to wage a war against the very people they make their money from. It’s should be obvious by now that they will never win, but sadly they are too blinded by their hate and fear to see it. Look at governments. Have they ever succedded in holding down their people? They try but nothing lasts forever, and victims always eventually grow claws and teeth to fight back with. But it’s the industries money to waste I suppose, and the more the waste the faster they die (one would hope). Crying wolf sure seems to be a good way to make money these days. The tech companies that develop all these so called copy protection measures must be laughing all the way to the bank. Reminds me of Michael Moores film Bowling for Columbine actually, the part about how fear and consumerism are linked. Anyone who is a fan of Terry Gookind’s books will know what I mean when I say “Wizard’s First Rule”.

I can’t see how they can do traffic analysis, unless the traffic runs through their networks. That would be invasion of privacy? data mining? spyware?. And a host of other law breaking activities surely?

As for the adding slight errors to the cam recordings, if it’s watchable, then it’s copyable .

The real mandate for this company is probably to find the best ways to obtain evidence to procecute sharers. And determine where the greater number of users are operating.

We all need to publicize the relationship between the riaa/mpaa and their clients who they work for (EMI, Sony etc). That way when ever anyone considers these money grabbing nazi’s it will be synonymous with their clients. The mpaa/riaa was a good way of deflecting bad publicity of their activities away from the real culpruts - THEIR CLIENTS!

Once people start bad mouthing sony, EMI etc along with mpaa/riaa then we might see a change of attitude.

That’s got to be a better idea than responding to the market with good products at prices low enough to make legit purchases attractive. That would NEVER work…

I spose 15 mil a year is chump change for “the studios” anyhoo. I bet their annual lobbying budget blows that away.