swhx7
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Re: Privacy concerns for the paranoid only
The "tool" is just a Linux distro with Apache and a packet logger. Any competent network administrator could set up something to accomplish the same purpose, much better, without any help from a ccopyright cartel's enforcement arm.
And contrary to billing, it does *not* detect or measure copyright infringement or illegal traffic. What it does is identify traffic by protocol (if it's not encrypted). There's no way a setup like this can tell even what the content is, much less whether it's authorized or not.
So it would seem it's the MPAA that's "dumber than a pet rock", as their history of coping with p2p shows. But wait, there's caginess in their mania.
Presumably the MPAA will equate all Bittorrent (for example) with infringement, just as they equate infringing copies with lost sales. The purpose seems to be to set up a situation where if the schools install the spyware, the MPAA can spew fantasy-based number-monkeying "piracy" propaganda - and if the schools refuse, the MPAA will depict them as protectors of pirates.
If the buggy-whip makers had been as fanatically devious as this bunch when *they* were going out of business, we'd have been in horse-drawn carriages well into the 20th century. |
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hopeflicker
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1 edit |  said by swhx7  : Well said!
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Kylemaul
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said by swhx7 :...The purpose seems to be to set up a situation where if the schools install the spyware, the MPAA can spew fantasy-based number-monkeying "piracy" propaganda - and if the schools refuse, the MPAA will depict them as protectors of pirates... What's incredibly laughable about this is that the savvy students (I anticipate there will be many) will regard the acceptance of this as a poorly thought-out reaction on the part of their school's administration. For those students heading to college for their freshman year, this type of 'campus policing' could be a detraction from picking a school to go to in the first place. It would have turned me away, knowing that a school had kow-towed to any entertainment corporation for non-educational purposes. "Protectors of Pirates" indeed--kind of like calling certain forefathers "Tax Pirates".  |
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