RIAA Wants Limits On Net Neutrality So ISPs Can Police File Sharing

Presto Vivace writes "Reporting for Computer World, Grant Gross writes that the RIAA is asking the FCC not to make the net neutrality rules so strict that they 'would limit broadband providers' [flexibility] to "address" illegal online file sharing.' It seems the RIAA is unclear on the concept of the Fourth Amendment. 'The FCC should not only avoid rules prohibiting ISPs from blocking illegal file trading, but it should actively encourage ISPs to do so, the RIAA said. ... Other groups called on the FCC to stay out of the copyright enforcement business. If ISPs are required to check for copyright infringement, they could interfere with legal online activities, said six digital rights and business groups, including Public Knowledge, the Consumer Electronics Association and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.'"

Re:analogy with mail

[u4ya]

You're right. What don't these RIAA jerks get? It's almost like they are operating with their own agenda or something.

Re:Meteor

[Anonymous Coward]

Anyone tried calling sephiroth? I'm sure he has just enough power left to drop a meteor on them.

Already patented.

[GiveBenADollar]

The RIAA can't legally do this because I already have a patent on: 'A technique for alienating your consumers by persecuting them.' US Patent 3,141,592 So I will charge a licensing fee of a modest 1 million dollars for every potential user of every ISP that uses this. Or approximately the population of the earth^3 million dollars. Now I'm worried they may use it anyway, so I've already applied to have a tax instituted in Europe to make up for the losses of every potential infringement on my patent.

Re:Meteor

[Ifandbut]

No, that would not kill them. The RIAA are more akin to cockroaches then dinosaurs.

Re:So basically

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe the RIAA are right?

We should block file sharing - lets start with the ISP the RIAA use, and their drones and employees and the Record Labels.

That way they'll never be able to tell what the rest of the internet is sharing.

Fairs, fair.