Comments on: MPAA to broadband providers: Pull the plug on pirates

Internet providers should identify customers running afoul of copyright law out of their own self-interest, the Motion Picture Association of America suggests.

[Tergon]

I somehow doubt

Look as others have said, encryption and changes in method/file names would make this nigh impossible.

I mean if this were even possible don't you think we'd already have less "mislabeled" (ah how cute I'm using nice words) downloads (umm rick roll any one?)

Also Com'on Jim there are worse things out there on the internets than Grandma getting a copy of Rush Hour 2 from bittorrent, like I don't know Hackers, Scammers terrorists (Oh wait those are the MPAA BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA)

[apsterling]

And indie or other producers...

Especially in music, what happens to the indie bands, or companies
not in line with RIAA?

Please, it's wrong on both sides, and I'll buy some music, and if
there's an album I want but not to pay for, I'll get it from a friend
who has it. Easy, unlikely to be caught for "stealing", and Free.

[st0nn]

Hilarous! Want something more hilarous?

Funny as usual...

Whats even more funny is the way this guy tore the whole Paul McGuinness speech to bits on http://www.eZee.se/

Yes, its a Swedish site, and we all know where the pirate bay comes from :)

[Outlawdj]

We're forgetting someone

I think we might be forgetting a group that only gets mentioned on the fringe of the discussion. When did all of America's troubles go away? Why is it that Congress has the time to worry about music, movies, and sports? Isn't there a war we are supposed to be trying to get out of? What happened to terrorism, crime, and drugs? Maybe Congress should ask those in the movie and music industries why they support the terrorists and criminals by buying all the drugs.

[Leria]

Drugs doesn't fit in with the others

Because if we were to legalize drugs, most of the other stuff would go away. I am not kidding here, my cousins who work for police agencies have said that 90% of crime comes from drugs being illegal and that crime would disappear if they were made legal and a regulated industry.

Terrorism would go away because 99% of their money is coming from the black market in drugs, as well as 'child pornography' (which should really also be made legal and regulated in order to TRULY protect children from FORCED sexual encounters).

[meshugge]

RE: MPAA to broadband....

Nice try guys!!!!

Now obfuscate the issue and get everyone up in arms with your FUD.

How to make your voice heard:
DO NOT BUY MUSIC!!!!
DO NOT BUY MOVIES!!!

Keep the money in YOUR pockets;
DO NOT put it in THEIRS!!!

DON'T support the RIAA!!! Tell the artists that you like that because their record label is associated with the RIAA; you REFUSE to purchase any of their material.

The same goes for the MPAA!! Send emails to the actors and actresses that you care to see, and tell them why you will not purchase or see the movies they are in because the company is associated with the MPAA.

In the Entertainment World it always been [b]Money Talks, Bulls--- Walks[/b] and we as consumers are tired of all of the Bulls--- from the MPAA and the RIAA.

The day that the RIAA and MPAA file for bankruptcy will be a happy one indeed!!!

[professor_ed]

Copyright and Traffic

Beyond all this bickering a few facts of the state of affairs,,,Copyright laws were intended to prevent the reproduction of materials for resale/profit;(It is perfectly legal to go to the library,check-out any movie or song and use;Likewise view and reproduce any US patent for use by yourself!) As to internet traffic,the Scammers and Spammers are on the verge of overwhelming the internet.Any laws RE:INTERNET,should be directed towards SPAM,FRAUD.

[soggy0]

The revolution is now

http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i91/aodforhire/1151543979.swf

Ignore the Limewire part...

File sharing is here to stay. Get over it.

[jypeterson]

Corporate Big Brother?

What scares me more than government control of human communication more is that of corporate control. Where does it stop???

[lostsomewhere]

paying customers....

"I believe they will find the incentive to make their networks more efficient for all of their paying customers,"

well... the "paying" customers will have incentive to shift to another ISP or downgrade their lines if they can't download what they want.

[lostsomewhere]

gun control

since MPAA has such strong beliefs...
i believe they will pour in some money for no-guns campaign.

wait... guns are only for shooting ducks... if some human is shot then its not the problem of gun industry or NRA lobby...
bandwidth is for downloading content... if someone downloads a movie or something else then how come ISP be responsible for it.

[magicmaster]

Missing Children Has Right of Way

Please don't taint the sacred nature of locating missing children; these missions are way more important than your greed.

[rsnic]

Precident for filtering of voice data

Voice communications are also just packets on a telecoms internal network.

Imagine a phone conversation and when you tell someone the plot of a movie with critique and your voice call is filtered and filled in with advertising for the movie.

Maybe a little paranoid. But, with the infrastructure built to provide a telecoms network wide filtering of arbitrary data, it is wide open for easy future power creep and misuse.

[galacticgufus]

my take on the story is to vote libertarian and to not buy anything made by the mpaa. 98% of anything worth reading or hearing is public domain anyway and (if we can stop music&film industry of america lobbied legislation) the public domain will only continue to grow

[mbridge]

ISPs and web-hosting companies are not the problem. They are simply companies providing a service. They cannot be expected to monitor every single customer, at every single moment. At the same time, they should take whatever measures they can to help copyright owners secure their protected works. Filtering software could be a good short-term solution as long as it is continually kept up-to-date similar to anti-virus software.

The DMCA is a another useful weapon against copyright piracy, albeit not a perfect one. Having worked with some of the largest ISPs in the worlds we have seen it work countless times against companies who have abused copyrighted works (including company logos).

From a conflicting views stand-point, what do ISPs have to gain from blocking illegal content? In fact, most of them make a large amount of their money on bandwidth. The more content (legal and illegal) they distribute, the more they can charge their customers.

This is unless they are taking a longer-term view of the situation. Perhaps the movie-studios are telling ISPs that if they help minimize copyright infringement, they would more more of their even larger content (DVD quality movies for example) onto the web. In that case ISPs would make a far greater amount than the do today. This of course would only work if they did not utilize P2P networks which circumvent the money making side of the operation.

The answer may lie in web-sites such as ABC.com and Hulu.com. Both are showing that it may in fact be better to provide your content online in a way that is both easy for customers to find and watch, and also profitable (yet to be seen) for copyright owners.

MBridge, LLC
http://www.MBridge.com

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