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"Starting next week, most U.S. Internet users will be subject to a new copyright enforcement system that could force them to complete educational programs, and even slow their Internet speeds to a crawl.
I don't condone piracy or the business practices of the large media corporations. That said it's been humorous watching the RIAA/MPAA playing the world's largest game of Whack-A-Mole for almost two decades now. At some point they have to come to the realization that damn mole is going to pop his head out of some hole. The legitimate consumers are just as much to blame accepting the restrictions placed on what they buy.
I don't condone piracy or the business practices of the large media corporations. That said it's been humorous watching the RIAA/MPAA playing the world's largest game of Whack-A-Mole for almost two decades now. At some point they have to come to the realization that damn mole is going to pop his head out of some hole. The legitimate consumers are just as much to blame accepting the restrictions placed on what they buy.
The dirtiest, filthiest disgusting despicable acronyms in the English language are RIAA/MPAA.....
In the long run they are screwed any way since the more aggressive they get the more anti-copyright parties are going to win European elections and get entrenched and without Europe on board any real enforcement is going to be pretty much impossible.
In the long run they are screwed any way since the more aggressive they get the more anti-copyright parties are going to win European elections and get entrenched and without Europe on board any real enforcement is going to be pretty much impossible.
This measure is to reduce US residents from circumventing copyright law. It's not about shutting down the scene.
This measure is to reduce US residents from circumventing copyright law. It's not about shutting down the scene.
You don't think they will try to export it to the rest of the western world? Either way if this is true I would not want to be a Starbucks or hotel manager in the foreseeable future.
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At some point they have to come to the realization that damn mole is going to pop his head out of some hole. The legitimate consumers are just as much to blame accepting the restrictions placed on what they buy.
