Install Copyright Filters on PCs, Says RIAA Boss

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

"At a conference last week, RIAA president Cary Sherman said he didn't support mandatory filtering by ISPs, but in a video clip posted by Public Knowledge, Sherman offers a far more troubling 'solution': installing filters on users' PCs. From Ars Technica's coverage: 'The issue of encryption "would have to be faced," Sherman admitted after talking about the wonders of filtering. "One could have a filter on the end user's computer that would actually eliminate any benefit from encryption because if you want to hear [the music], you would need to decrypt it, and at that point the filter would work."'"

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/07/197201

I was actually downloading a SP for windows last night then all at once, comcast decided to kill my internet. I was still able to ping out, just coudlnt get on Xfire or the net. :banghead:

RIAA is going to damn far with this shit. I mean come on PC filters!?

[Darknova]

Never going to happen.

It's that simple.

[niko084]

Never going to happen.

It's that simple.

And if it did there would be a mod around it like anything else.

[Darknova]

And if it did there would be a mod around it like anything else.

Exactly, this is just another of those things where an idea gets thrown out, and some one will run with it and in 6 months to a year they'll bring out something based on it which will be laughed at.

[DrPepper]

That's really dumb of the RIAA ... copyright filters wtf there will be a way around it in days.