They're baaaacckkk!!! Rather more accurately, the MPAA never left the SOPA love boat. They're now full on colluding with corporate citizen gems like Comcast to "legally" justify essentially wresting control of the entire internet. Don't be fooled by the justification that their only aim is to limit pirated content; with the kind of power they are seeking, in liason with big boy ISP's, their ultimate aim is to be able to control what you have access to. If it's not in *their* interests for you to know about it, they want to ensure that you stay in the dark.
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Leaked documents reveal a frightening line of attack that's currently being considered by the MPAA: What if you simply erased any record that the site was there in the first place?
To do that, the MPAA's lawyers would target the Domain Name System (DNS) that directs traffic across the internet. The tactic was first proposed as part of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in 2011, but three years after the law failed in Congress, the MPAA has been looking for legal justification for the practice in existing law and working with ISPs like Comcast to examine how a system might work technically. If the system works, DNS-blocking could be the key to the MPAA's long-standing goal of blocking sites from delivering content to the US. At the same time, it represents a bold challenge to the basic engineering of the internet, threatening to break the very backbone of the web and drawing the industry into an increasingly nasty fight with Google.
I really don't see this happening. The US government wants to keep control over DNS protocols so much issues regarding it comprise some of the 19 points of disagreement preventing it from signing the TPP. The Fed would step in to stop this before it happened.
I don't see this ACTUALLY happening, they might go through the process for it but it seems like the government would intervene at one point or another seeing as this is pretty extreme.
I really don't see this happening. The US government wants to keep control over DNS protocols so much issues regarding it comprise some of the 19 points of disagreement preventing it from signing the TPP. The Fed would step in to stop this before it happened.
You have news posts like this and still everybody is screaming in the amd and nv thread quite sad tbh.
Lets hope they can't bribe everybody to push this trough altough i don't even live in the US.
...and it would accomplish nothing. People would just start using other DNSes.
Media companies never learn:
1) Companies propose new DRM/security/control technology. Break the law if necessary.
2) Hackers break the technology.
3) Companies implement the technology.
4) The technology burden consumers with hoops and lock-in. Does nothing to stop pirating.
...and it would accomplish nothing. People would just start using other DNSes.
Media companies never learn:
1) Companies propose new DRM/security/control technology. Break the law if necessary.
2) Hackers break the technology.
3) Companies implement the technology.
4) The technology burden consumers with hoops and lock-in. Does nothing to stop pirating.
Pirating sites will start using more IP than DNS, other DNS systems not subject to the MPAA will start to be more of the backbone than current DNS systems.
New versions of torrent will start to surface more with harder to decrypt and more secure pear to pear files transfers for the masses.
Pirating sites will start using more IP than DNS, other DNS systems not subject to the MPAA will start to be more of the backbone than current DNS systems.
New versions of torrent will start to surface more with harder to decrypt and more secure pear to pear file transfers for the masses.
...and it would accomplish nothing. People would just start using other DNSes.
Media companies never learn:
1) Companies propose new DRM/security/control technology. Break the law if necessary.
2) Hackers break the technology.
3) Companies implement the technology.
4) The technology burden consumers with hoops and lock-in. Does nothing to stop pirating.
and only people it would stop is the people know just enugh to download pirated material anyone used a computer very much will find ways to get content if they want it bad enugh while the consumer gets screwed.
...and it would accomplish nothing. People would just start using other DNSes.
Media companies never learn:
1) Companies propose new DRM/security/control technology. Break the law if necessary.
2) Hackers break the technology.
3) Companies implement the technology.
4) The technology burden consumers with hoops and lock-in. Does nothing to stop pirating.
I don't see the point in highlighting comcast. They aren't the only ISP who the MIAA asked for advice/assistance and it should be obvious from past actions by ISPs.
I don't see the point in highlighting comcast. They aren't the only ISP who the MIAA asked for advice/assistance and it should be obvious from past actions by ISPs.
On October 8th, Hollywood lawyers met for a secret "site-blocking confab" with a senior Comcast engineer at the MPAA's offices in Sherman Oaks. A leaked agenda from the meeting (pasted below) shows a crash course in the basic technical issues of site-blocking, from IP- and URL-based tactics to the larger political landscape. One session offered "Lessons from the Field," asking, "Have there been issues in site-blocking to date that should inform our thinking?" The group also circulated an earlier technical analysis, which suggested a hybrid model combining IP-based and URL-based models. If US law ever offers a way to wipe copyright-infringing sites off the web, the MPAA will know exactly how to do it.
Probably no ,that's why he listed the relevant paragraph, or if he didn't in his original post maybe you should have said so for wasting 5 min of my Schnitzel time.
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