MPAA Boss Makes Case for ISP Content Filtering

creaton writes "At the annual UBS Global & Media Communications Conference yesterday, MPAA boss Dan Glickman banged on the copyright filtering drum during a 45-minute speech. Glickman called piracy the MPAA's #1 issue and told the audience that it cost the studios $6 billion annually. His solution: technology, especially in the form of ISP filtering. 'The ISP community is going to be at the forefront of this in the future because they have everything to lose and nothing to gain by not seeing that the content is being properly protected ... and I think that's a great opportunity.' AT&T has already said it plans to filter content, but others may be more reluctant to go along, notes Ars Technica: 'ISPs that are concerned with being, well, ISPs aren't likely to see many benefits from installing some sort of industrial-strength packet-sniffing and filtering solution at the core of their network. It costs money, customers won't like the idea, and the potential for backlash remains high.'"

Re:Neat

[junglee_iitk]

Encryption is only for criminals.

Captain Copyright told me last night.

One Solution

[pat mcguire]

ISPs try to do the same thing with spam, and spam still arrives in my inbox. It seems logical then that the best way to get around ANY filter is to change the name to one with genitalia spelled in leetspeak. On an unrelated note, my download of TransP3N1Sformers[2006]DvDrip[Eng] - aXXo is almost done.

Re:No your number one issue SHOULD BE

[Hatta]

I prefer my fucking movies to be indecent.

Re:No your number one issue SHOULD BE

[houstonbofh]

TELLING YOUR PARTNERS TO MAKE DECENT FUCKING MOVIES. Maybe then people might want to pay 30 bucks to see your movie in a theater...

But Fucking Movies are the ones doing well...
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_6059391 [dailynews.com]
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/21/60minutes/main585049.shtml [cbsnews.com]
And you can use your own partner, or someone else's.

mod parent up ;-)

[circletimessquare]

e=mc^2

so m=e/c^2

therefore, i owe you e/c^2 for the mass of yours i am using

do you take picodollars?

Re:Make the MPAA pay for it

[lucky130]

They'll have to pay them in "theoretical" dollars, not real ones.

Piracy

[Anonymous Coward]

> Glickman called piracy the MPAA's #1 issue

Can't the Navy or Coast Guard help them with this?

Re:Make the MPAA pay for it

[Anonymous Coward]

WTPOYSAIYHTWIANTITEIA? (What's the point of your stupid acronym if you have to write it all next to it to explain it anyways?)

Re:Neat

[wamerocity]

I think we should take a note from modern day politics. I think they should stop referring to music that people downloaded without paying as "stolen" or "illegal" but we should refer it "undocumented music" or is on a "guest-listenership plan"

After all, people are just taking the music that no one wants to buy, right? :D

Please repost

[PPH]

Could somebody repost Glickman's comments? My ISP had its "whiney bullshit" filter set on high and the original didn't come through.

Re:Wrong.

[sakdoctor]

Windows genuine advantage is on strike?

Re:Neat

[Luscious868]

I'm not a pirate, I'm an undocumented customer.

I've watched that movie...

[TheVelvetFlamebait]

Worst. Porno. Ever.

Re:Neat

[R2.0]

I saw a bumber sticker: "If illegal aliens are undocumented immigrants, then drug dealers are unlicensed pharmacists"

Re:Wrong.

[Shakrai]

I wonder where the ongoing WGA strike fell on this list of issues

Well, you have to understand... the studios didn't want the strike. The WGA are a greedy bunch of bastards that expect royalties off internet sales and other so-called "new media". Yeah, right! The studios have no way of knowing how much that new media is worth, so how are they going to pay royalties to the writers?

Don't the writers know that it's clearly impossible for the studios to calculate how much something is worth.... unless it's being pirated of course, then it's clearly worth billions of dollars and costs thousands of jobs ;)

In all seriousness though (and so my whole post isn't sarcasm), J. Michael Straczynski (creator of Babylon 5) has some interesting things to say [worldsofjms.com] about the writers strike. It's a good perspective into what motivates the rank and file of the WGA.

I have this to say about content filtering

[mandark1967]

Content Filtering is a [Filtered by Comcast] reaction by a [Filtered by Comcast] company that is [Filtered by Comcast] focused on [Filtered by Comcast] its users and they couldn't care less about [Filtered by Comcast] profits.

Signed,

An [Filtered by Comcast]-happy Comcast User

Re:Wrong.

[SL Baur]

I think subscriptions like Netflix are part of the reason why people are not going to the theaters as much as they used to,

I don't know or care about Netflix, but whatever.

My own reasons for preferring to watch movies any place[1] other than a theater:

1. avoiding subtitles and dubbing (the jury is in after several years of thought and I hate this)
2. can smoke, drink beer, etc.
3. no lines, etc.
4. no annoying cellphones around you
5. more comfortable (and cleaner)
6. can have the movie paused while vital actions like natural functions or a trip to the fridge is performed
7. if you get bored and fall asleep, big deal, just stay asleep and wake up the next day
8. um, er, well, I haven't seen a movie since around the time of Titanic that I felt was worth the effort of getting out of the house to go see

Your mileage may vary, offer good unless prohibited, state and local restrictions may apply, etc. etc. etc.

[1] International plane flights void all of the reasons listed above, replace with "Shit! When am I going to get out of this hellish sardine can? Oh look, a movie!"

Re:Wrong.

[cez]

Nope. You have to work to be on strike!


...zing!

Re:I mean this in a nice, constructive way

[randyest]

I'll take that as a "yes." Thanks! But no thanks on the sexual offer. I'm straight.

Re:Wrong.

[PainKilleR-CE]

To the MPAA, everyone's a pirate. If you have a region-free DVD player, you're circumventing their market-protection system, and you're a pirate. If you crack the encryption on a DVD you bought so you can watch it on your laptop without the disc in the drive, you're a pirate. If you download the movie from a P2P service so you don't have to figure out how to do all of that, you're a pirate.

If you capture a screenshot from the movie and edit it to use as your desktop wallpaper, you're a pirate. If you copy sound bites to use as your sound effects in Windows, you're a pirate. If you say something bad about the movie in an email, you bring a cell phone with video capability into a theater, or opposed DivX players (the ones that competed with DVD for 2 weeks), or support DivX playback on DVD players (the file format/codec of choice for decent quality video over the internet), you're a pirate.

If you download mp3 files of Britney Spears through P2P sites, the MPAA could care less, except that you're going down the slippery slope to becoming a movie pirate.

Re:Neat

[pintpusher]

I'd warrant that many unlicensed pharmacists do a much better job of measuring/weighing/packaging than many licensed pharmacists.