Your Computer Deactivated - FREE! - With Every Stolen Movie!
CNET News has an interesting article entitled Could Hollywood hack your PC? It talks about how congress is thinking about passing a bill that will allow legal holders of a copyright product to disable any compute that they believe are being used to illegally share their product.
The bill does not state what type of methods that they could use to disable your computer, but I am certain that viruses, rootkits, and denial of service attacks are all on the menu!
This may be a strange take on this but I was thinking about the poor souls who work for and develop the disabling software for the copyright holders. These people will be completely shunned by the computing community. They would be less popular than a kissing booth at a leper colony! Definitely in line for the world’s dirtiest job!
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3 Responses to “Your Computer Deactivated - FREE! - With Every Stolen Movie!”
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Rob Dunn Says:
November 21st, 2006 at 12:57 pmWhile I agree that sharing movies is definitely illegal and should not be done by anyone, I feel badly for the poor parent that comes into their office and discovers that their kid has been sharing movies, and because of it, they now can’t connect into work over VPN, check their email, etc. (keeping your kids away from the computer beside the point for now). I see lawsuits a plenty on the horizon!
I don’t think this will gain much momentum, as it is a perfect example of vigilante copyright protection from an already too-powerful and money grubbing industry.
No one has much sympathy for the movie studios or the RIAA (I especially have little sympathy for the movie companies - - $8 movie anyone, how about some commercials?), so this will be a really good way for them to lose popularity. I guess time will tell, but I’m leaning toward a no-go on this one.
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Ross Patterson Says:
November 22nd, 2006 at 7:49 amDude, that CNet story is over four years old. I’m thinking it didn’t happen, cause the botnets are still out there.
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Tim Fehlman Says:
November 22nd, 2006 at 7:52 amThe original story is four years old but it was updated just two days ago.
Tim
