Viacom Wants Industry Wide Copyright Filter 248
slashqwerty writes "Unsatisfied with the proprietary copyright filter Google recently unveiled, Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman has called for an industry standard to filter copyrighted material. Mr. Dauman has the backing of Microsoft, Disney, and Universal. 'They reflect the fact that there ought to be a filtering system in place on the part of technology companies,' he noted. 'Most responsible companies have followed that path. What no one wants is a proprietary system that benefits one company. It is a big drain to a company like ours to have to deal with incompatible systems.' How would an industry standard impact freedom of speech and in particular censorship on the internet? How would it affect small, independent web sites?"
Disaster strikes (Score:4, Funny)
TWW
Re:Youtube (Score:3, Funny)
It's all a big joke (Score:5, Funny)
It will read like this:
Your Rights Online: [slashdot.org] MPAA admit that everything they have said for the last 5 years has been a practical joke
Posted by kdawson on Tuesday Cantrembember 75th @ 27:00
from the i-knew-it department
Anonymous Coward writes:
"The lawsuits, the absurd DRM, the crazy "the entire industry is going to collapse" rhetoric - we never believed any of this crap", said a spokesman. "What actually happened was someone suggested that perhaps we could somehow start announcing these ridiculous ideas, record the reaction then release it as a movie. Kind of like The Truman Show [imdb.com], only much much bigger."
Re:Youtube (Score:1, Funny)
If that's what passes for rational thought in your brain, it's a damn good thing for you that there's an autonomic component to it.
confused desires (Score:4, Funny)
He seems to be confusing "responsible" with "threatened."
Re:Proposed Copyright Standard (Score:4, Funny)
Architecture is a Useful Art.
Brittney Spears is Not.