mpaa secret weapon!

[tenders]

the mpaa's new ranger spyware! don't know if i should laugh or cry
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A5144-2002Jun18

[Faustus]

I suggest eveyone put bunk info on their website about downloading movies, even if its just a random sentence thats hidden on your main page... we can always flood the thing... just a thought tho

[pacmania_2001]

So anyway recently I was illegally downloading Spiderman and Star Wars and also Minority Report. If you want them you can get them from here. Lets see whether they shut that site down

[mrebman]

Has anyone actually gone to jail or been fined for simply Downloading aa .Avi like Spiderman or Star Wars?
-Mick-

[devinemi83]

Not that I know of. Mostly you will get a cease and decist(sp?) letter saying take this off your computer within 24 hours or you will lose your internet service and possible legal action will be filed. I doubt they will take any one small person to court for downloading spiderman or whatever, but if you are sharing tons of films, the chances go up. It would cost so much, and the likelyhood of them getting the 500,000 from you is very small. The people they do charge they usually take them through court after court as a punishment, and costing you thousands.

I wouldnt be too worried. I downloaded, 25 movies and I'm still here.

[pacmania_2001]

They only really try to get rid of the big players i.e. the release groups, commercial pirating rings and cd factories and also websites that sell and provide them for download. That way it cuts off the supply chain so movies cant reach the average user.

[homerpez]

First, this is nothing new... remember how Metallica killed Napster? They used similar software to notify Napster what users were "infringing", so the Napster could "ban" (quite temporarily, heh heh) certain users from the network, because they were "pirates".

This Ranger is the exact same thing, only this will have a backlash if it's used on you and I, the "little guy".

For movies, we may be looking more at them targeting the source people (the ones to nab a media-preview-only DVD and encode it for the net for example), because targeting peer-to-peer users is endless, and ultimately fruitless. And it doesn't solve the REAL problem.

I personally hope that they try something totally ILLEGAL, so that the tables are turned on THEM. Imagine if they made a spyware VIRUS... after all, they can only view your "shared" files on peer-to-peer networks...

Then the class action suit... and we can ALL seriously cash in!

[devinemi83]

The things is, they are going to try to get laws passed saying they are allowed to do these things. Thats way when they launch a mean virus onto us, they say "hey you cant sue, the laws are on our side,haha!" I swear if I find out they use a tool like that and I get hurt by it, I will go balls out on the attack, I program VB, so I know how to make things that can mess up systems.

[tenders]

homerpez said:
Then the class action suit... and we can ALL seriously cash in!





if you read all three pages of the article.....they are being sued :P

[homerpez]

...I should have noticed... I would have felt MUCH better

[Nightcrawler]

i received an email from my internet provider telling me i was illegally sharing copyrighted material and if i did not stop they would shut off my service.

[suckonthis]

i received an email from my internet provider telling me i was illegally sharing copyrighted material and if i did not stop they would shut off my service.

:P Thats funny how do they know what your doing unless they're spying on you and all your contents. Who is your internet sevice provider? they suck! well what can i say other than F*&K them!!!!

[Nightcrawler]

i wont mention my provider because i work for a branch of the company, but when they sent me the email they told me too stop sharing and remove the movie from my computer. they knew the name of the movie, the day and time i was sharing it. when i tried to respond to them, i was given a link that was too a site run by the provider where people could report sharing of copyrighted material. i think someone who downloaded the movie from me turned around and reported me.