MPAA Says Net Neutrality Would Hamper Its Anti-Piracy Efforts
from the must-be-a-bad-idea-then dept
If you were on the fence about net neutrality, this might just push you over: the MPAA has sent a letter to the FCC saying that net neutrality regulations shouldn't be implemented because they might interfere with filtering technologies and foster the sharing of copyrighted content. Like so many things the MPAA says, this doesn't make a lot of sense. Even if net neutrality regulations covered the use of packet inspection and filtering to weed out illegal content (and it's not clear that they would), the regulations would only apply to ISPs. Despite the proactive stance AT&T is taking in sucking to Hollywood by deciding on its own to try and filter content, few ISPs would want to join them. There's no reason for them to try and filter out copyrighted content: they have no legal responsibility to do so, thanks to safe harbor laws, while spending money to do something that's only going to annoy their customers is generally regarded as a bad idea. It's not hard to see what's happening here, though. The MPAA wants to ensure that net neutrality laws, or anything else, would preclude ISP filtering -- then it's going to push for new laws forcing ISPs to police their networks for unauthorized content.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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After all...
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Net Neutrality?
And why does Google does not care if VoIP traffic is killed by YouTube videos?
And why is Google not concerned if thei r traffic have better rotes already than 99% of other content providers making it self prioritized by lover ping and killing the competition.
Any why... o well... they just want to make some money no matter what. Hm, could this be the answer? Lucky for them that they force everybody to NOT where suit... yes this will save the Internet, lots of guys without ties. Sure... I belive them... always... ultra.
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Re: Net Neutrality?
You're an idiot. Come back when you've grown up. Or at least learn to stay on point in these threads.
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Re: Net Neutrality?
So ISPs can save BANDWIDTH. That would save the ISP money give its users faster loading from YouTube and have more bandwidth for things like VoIP.
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Another OT Post.
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Re: The MPAA
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Wahh!
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Legislation?
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Buggy Whips
Perhaps we should help MPAA join them in the hallowed halls of long-dead history. Just say no to MPAA members' most profitable products, first-run movies.
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Buggy Whips
Perhaps we should help MPAA join them in the hallowed halls of long-dead history. Just say no to MPAA members' most profitable products, first-run movies.
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My Rant:
Let us tear asunder their great machine. Let us fight them tooth and nail. We will not only stomp them into the ground and keep stomping long after their final movements. Then, let us deficate upon their graves. NO MERCY!!! The only "piece" they will find is within death itself!'
Firstly, only buy the REALLY good stuff that you LOVE and are going to watch over and over. Secondly, if it's anything else, rent it to see it. They only get the money once from the company buying that DVD. So then how many people get to watch that DVD? Quite a few I'd bet! So then, in that way, we take out a large chunk of their money that way. Personally, if you have the bandwith for it and your computer can handle it, I say go ahead and share the stuff! After all, what can they do? Scare a handful away? The only people they scare off are the people who don't know what their doing! The leachers! Who cares about them!
I can't fully express my hatred for archaic things like the MPAA that have no place in this world. I am not nearly articulate enough. The MPAA, RIAA and OPEC are all the same in my eyes. They're greedy and they want to be able to sit back and have an unlimited amount of money thrown at them until they have it all. GREED is what's making this world sick. GREED is what's making so instead of humanity working together, (to a great extent as all of us working together isn't just greed, but nationality and the like), we fight each other and "hide our notes" from our "classmates" in the "classroom of life".
May God almighty in heaven give them herpaids.
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Greed was of course once very anti-Christian but nowadays people who are greedy are exalted above everyone else. Those who lie, steal and cheat to become rich are held high on a pedistal for us all to worship.
In fact I would say greed has become the primary national pastime of America. It is a sickness that spells the decline of our civilizations. The reduction of human beings to debts and numbers is a sad commentary on our civilization.
Blame the victim and suppress the people is the name of the game. Keep them dumb and reproducing so we have a large base for our pyramid of lies and shame. This is what it truly means to be a US citizen.
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Maybe they have something there...
Let's say that the MPAA is allowed to bribe or bully ISPs into filtering all allegedly infringing content. Since online content might be more likely to increase interest in media rather than decrease it (a ridiculously radical concept, I know, rather like commercials or, gasp, free samples), the MPAA could in effect be shooting itself in the foot. This doesn't seem like such a bad thing to me.
Now, if we could just figure out a way to get the MPAA to shoot itself in the heart...
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the reason it interferes...
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The enemy of my enemy...
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If prevent asshole like MPAA/RIAA doing stuff not suppose to than I'm for it..
but give too much power to ISP and they may try filter shit in favor for there partner and shit.. I think net-neutrality should be review and fix some the loop hole and keep internet as is but regulate greedy fucker wanna restrict/filter/etc..
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Yo, MC
Anyway, I'd like to point out that most of these debates are all about Us vs. Them, Greed vs. Need, Rich vs. Poor. Although I agree with many of the points here, I believe that there is a fundamental issue that we are missing. See, in the US, we complain that there's not enough bandwidth for both YouTube and VOIP, so one of them has to get the chop.
Other countries have figured out the solution : increase the bandwidth.
Here : fight over who gets a bigger slice of the ever shrinking pie. Rest-of-world : find ways to increase the size of the pie. No wonder we're losing.
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Here : fight over who gets a bigger slice of the ever shrinking pie. Rest-of-world : find ways to increase the size of the pie. No wonder we're losing.
That's the American corporate mentality for you. They think that having 100% control of a 10,000 customer market is better than have 50% of a 100,000 customer market. And in the board meeting where they only talk about how much of the market they have command over 100% sounds a lot better than 50%.
Corporations have managed to snow themselves over with charts, graphs, projections, and other analytical nonsense that they don't see the real numbers anymore.
Take a look at cell phone, satellite tv, and internet providers. Notice how they always have a new deal for new customers only? That way they can constantly attract new customers. Why you ask? Growth. It sound much nicer to tell the executive board that they brought in 10,000 new customers last year (neglecting to say that they lost 8,000) than to say they only brought in 5,000 customers. You notice that I didn't say anything about keeping current customers happy? Well they don't either. They are only concerned with bringing in new customers regardless off how many they lose so they can brag about being, "The fastest growing..." in their market.
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