The Entertainment industry wants the legal right to put trojans on your computer and hold your files hostage.
Srlsy:
The hilariously named "Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property" has finally released its report, an 84-page tome
that's pretty bonkers. But amidst all that crazy, there's a bit that
stands out as particularly insane: a proposal to legalize the use of
malware in order to punish people believed to be copying illegally. The
report proposes that software would be loaded on computers that would
somehow figure out if you were a pirate, and if you were, it would lock
your computer up and take all your files hostage until you call the
police and confess your crime. This is the mechanism that crooks use
when they deploy ransomware.
Because
the RIAA would never make a mistake and think that a Grandmother was pirating rock 'n roll music:
On Friday, the Recording Industry Association of America withdrew its
lawsuit against Sarah Seabury Ward of Newbury, Massachusetts, after the
66-year-old grandmother said she had never used or even downloaded any
peer-to-peer file-sharing software. Bolstering her claim is the fact
that Ward and her husband own a Macintosh computer, which is
incompatible with the Kazaa file-sharing network they're accused of
using to share more than 2,000 songs.
Another reason to run Linux, if that there law gets passed.
4 comments:
Good point! And they won't give up...
Uh yeah no.
Another reason among many to run Linux, as well as another reason among many to run TOR system wide, not just for browsing.
ccbpc, I dig tor. But not for bittorrent (not recommended)
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