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US entertainment industry to Congress: make it legal for us to deploy rootkits

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Re: US entertainment industry to Congress: make it legal for us to deploy rootkits

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Post by ericcumbee »

Because every country strives to be more like Syria.

"MPAA told Congress that they wanted SOPA and knew it would work because it was the same tactic used by governments in "China, Iran, the UAE, Armenia, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Bahrain, Burma, Syria, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam."

Re: US entertainment industry to Congress: make it legal for us to deploy rootkits

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Post by greenyoda »

Are they also going to push for laws that mandate that all anti-virus software must ignore their rootkits?

And with secure boot in Windows 8, it will be harder for rootkits to remain undetected by hiding in the boot loader. Will the entertainment industry push for laws that force operating system vendors to provide back-doors for the official malware?

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Post by jayfuerstenberg »

jaxbot wrote: post #4

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootki...

I boycotted SONY because of this and have been free of their products for 6 years.

Now it seems that more companies want to learn a lesson the hard way.

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Post by dylz »

ericcumbee wrote: post #2

Because every country strives to be more like Syria. "MPAA told Congress that they wanted SOPA and knew it would work because it was the same tactic used by governments in "China, Iran, the UAE, Armenia, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Bahrain, Burma, Syria, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam."

Is it bad that the first thing that stood out to me was the mismatched quotation marks?

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Post by ihsw »

smegel wrote: post #5

So downloading copyrighted content makes you a "hacker" now?

That's hardly the point, which is that they can get Congress to bend over backwards for them. Since this piece of legislation is obviously absurd, they'll attempt for something pared down but clearly authoritarian with minimal (non-existent?) oversight.

At this point they're just flexing their muscle to see how much wiggle room they've got. A small part of me wishes votes on legislation were anonymous so our congress-critters would avoid the constraints of having to vote along party lines (and notably their campaign donors' wrath).

Re: US entertainment industry to Congress: make it legal for us to deploy rootkits

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Post by TheBiv »

I tried to be rational and then I got to the second paragraph of their own brief:

"The second and even more pernicious effect is that illegal theft of intellectual property is undermining both the means and the incentive for entrepreneurs to innovate, which will slow the development of new inventions and industries that can further expand the world economy and continue to raise the prosperity and quality of life for everyone. Unless current trends are reversed, there is a risk of stifling innovation, with adverse consequences for both developed and still developing countries."

Source: http://ipcommission.org/report/IP_Commission_Report_052213.p...

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