If RIAA really expects content filtering to be done on the user end they’re out of their minds.

If i vpn to my place of business I expect it to be encrypted is it illegal ? Dickheads honestly.

Just do all your AV checking on the linux box then transfer it over to the winbox if you can’t run it on ‘nix.

True enough about the AVs however I’d rather have a linux DLbox due to it’s low RAM footprint (mostly) and it’s noticeably less vulnerability to malware attacks. This would just give me one more reason to do so than I already have :/

The “public” would NEVER approve and haul their ass into court if they ever tried it. And they know it.

Too many ways it can be abused and it would be challenged on grounds of invasion of privacy.

Having that in mind I doubt it’s possible to propose to AV’s to block/delete things like songs or video. It’s not as simple as nuking a DLL file or modifying a string in the registry. A file can be compressed in practically an infinite number of ways to begin with – let alone putting additional encryption to the files to begin with. It’s effectively a fools errand.

I suspect that this is why there has been a push lately to ISP’s. Can’t target file-sharing programmers most of the popular stuff is open source and unstoppable. Can’t sue enough people to deter the rest because of the ‘winning the RIAA lottery’ syndrome – not to mention that this doesn’t help their anti-competitive moves online. Can’t shut down the networks because it’s all decentralized. Can’t pollute the files anymore because the hashing is too strong now. Can’t find all the trackers because there are just way too many of them – let alone trying to knock out TPB which only happened once and it was back up in a day after all the resources wasted. Can’t just tell people to stop exploring new avenues of music they just get laughed at. Can’t just set up a legitimate site and sell music because others can do that thus destabilizing a monopoly. So the most viable alternative is to turn to the ISP and tell them to be “copyright cops”. It’s the only thing centralized still and once the multi-billion dollar companies are siding with you it’s not likely that people will get together and build their own multi-million dollar backbone and feed the fiber optic cables to billions of homes. Targeting ISP’s is their best shot at this point in time to control the internet – something even the DMCA protects against in the first place.