Lawsuits aren’t the only things just launched by the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America).
It’s also released its new Movie Studio Piracy software to allow parents – or anyone else who gets hold of it – to scour computers looking for content to delete on behalf of the movie studios.
It doesn’t seem possible they could actually get away with this, does it? But that’s Hollywood.
The application was developed by DtecNet Software, a Danish software firm whose chairman is, by an amazing coincidence, Johan Schluter, a member of the Big Music record label cartel’s IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry), and which also boasts the Danish Anti-Piracy Group’s Niels Bo Jorgensen as a board member.
And the ap seems to be about as @#$%ed up as the entertainment industry’s attempts to regain control of what used to be its customer base by suing them and trying to kill anything which looks even remotely like competition.
The MPAA’s Parent File Scan is supposed to allow parents see if a kid’s PC has ‘illegal’ movie files on it.
We had a look and it doesn’t include anything you have to sign declaring you’re a Mum or a Dad before it lets you DL it. So presumably, kids with Orwellian mentalities can also scan their parents PCs and report them to the MPAA for ‘violations’.
dslreports has a number of posts from people who’ve tried the software out.,
One from hbguys says, “I just installed this on a clean machine with only Windows XP on it. It found the Windows default WAV files as copyrighted material and it wanted to delete them. Boy that is great software. What will they think of next? I know software that tells parents to delete the Program Files folder because P2P could possibly be installed into it. Or how about offering to reformat your hard drive so there is no possibility of downloading copyright material?”
Another says, “The program should be changed to ‘MediaKiller’ thats all it does is search for all *.mp3/*.wav and video extensions and asks you to delete all of them. What a program. Thanks MPAA.”
But that’s no surprise.
“The program does not distinguish between legal and illegal copies, as it is up to the user to determine, whether the files found by the program have been acquired legally, or whether the material should be deleted,” says the MPAA.
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