RIAA, MPAA wish for anti-piracy spyware on home PCs

[hydra3333]

http://www.myce.com/news/riaa-mpaa-wish-for-anti-piracy-spyware-28562/

If the music and movie industries had their way, they’d have spyware on every computer for the purpose of catching copyright infringement.

I’m not making this up. The Recording Industry and Motion Picture Associations of America actually offered up the idea to the government as a way to enforce intellectual property law. The U.S. Office of the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator is seeking these comments as it forms a “Joint Strategic Plan” for cracking down on copyright infringement.

[Midzuki]

JMHO: if those "copyright dealers" were smart enough,
they would have already found other and better ways to make money,
instead of sticking to a nearly-dead model of business. :rolleyes:

[Dark Shikari]

I think the key word here is "wish".

[ChronoCross]

I feel like this was some sort of April fools joke gone too far.

[nibus]

Well just because they recently "offered up" the idea doesn't mean they haven't implemented it in the past.... I wouldn't put it past them.

[Soulhunter]

Wish... "The formation of beliefs and making decisions according to what might be pleasing to imagine instead of by appealing to evidence, rationality or reality"

[forumjunkie]

Well there would be ways around there spyware. They have no right to do that I doubt it will ever come to it.