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Have you guys seen this yet?
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[I]As you may know, in February 2006 the major movie studios and their Washington lobby, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), filed a lawsuit against TorrentSpy and other search engines.
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The really scarry thing is that if we lose this court battle, the movie studios will be able to go after any search engine or website and force them to collect data about YOU. It is not an exaggeration to say that losing this fight is a nail in the Internet's coffin.[/I]Link
I suppose the data protection act is possible to protect the public here right?
Logs? That really is something.
Yes, Piracy is illegal, that's a given. But we should also remember that transferring files over the Internet is not. This will largely be a concern of the US government, I imagine; much of the hosting equipment for the Internet exists over there.
No one, as far as I know or believe, has or should have, the right to monitor what people look at online, with the exception of illegal activites such as piracy, child porn et cetera. So it's a case of monitoring only such sites; but can that be done by a government? It certainly should not.
Leave it to the MPAA and the music industry to track people down, and to attempt to get sites closed under copyright law. What Google have done in collabortation with the Chinese government is tyrannical (As you'd expect in a state which restricts freedom of speech, I guess), and I sincerely hope that no western government would consider anything similar!
Only problem I can see is that the MPAA features in the Forbes Power 25 as one of the main contributors to the Democrat party and its candidates in the US, so it may try and swing some influence; although I don't think that's too likely, as they're not the NRA!
Yes, Piracy is illegal, that's a given. But we should also remember that transferring files over the Internet is not. This will largely be a concern of the US government, I imagine; much of the hosting equipment for the Internet exists over there.
No one, as far as I know or believe, has or should have, the right to monitor what people look at online, with the exception of illegal activites such as piracy, child porn et cetera. So it's a case of monitoring only such sites; but can that be done by a government? It certainly should not.
Leave it to the MPAA and the music industry to track people down, and to attempt to get sites closed under copyright law. What Google have done in collabortation with the Chinese government is tyrannical (As you'd expect in a state which restricts freedom of speech, I guess), and I sincerely hope that no western government would consider anything similar!
Only problem I can see is that the MPAA features in the Forbes Power 25 as one of the main contributors to the Democrat party and its candidates in the US, so it may try and swing some influence; although I don't think that's too likely, as they're not the NRA!
Have you guys seen this yet?
Link
[I]As you may know, in February 2006 the major movie studios and their Washington lobby, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), filed a lawsuit against TorrentSpy and other search engines.
...
The really scarry thing is that if we lose this court battle, the movie studios will be able to go after any search engine or website and force them to collect data about YOU. It is not an exaggeration to say that losing this fight is a nail in the Internet's coffin.[/I]Link