More MPAA Fascism (nm, I'm an idiot)

[Blue_MiSfit]

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2006/11/home-theater-regulations.html

Disgusting. Simply disgusting. This article seriously reads like a joke, I can't believe the MPAA would actually stoop so low as to demand that everyone present at a DVD viewing should own a copy, or at least pay a fee!

Money grubbing beasts.

~MiSfit

[kumi]

That is the absolute height of arrogance. Biometric sensors?? Soon they'll be implanting SQUID sensors in the our grey matter, monitoring for unauthorized enjoyment of licensed films.

Edit: hmmm... I fell for it :D

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2005/03/mpaa_piracy.html

[mitsubishi]

We have a right to know what's showing in a theater."

The bill would require that any hardware manufactured in the future contain technology that tells the MPAA directly of what is being shown and specific details on the audience. The data would be gathered using various motion sensors and biometric technology
...
Just because you buy a DVD to watch at home doesn't give you the right to invite friends over to watch it too. That's a violation of copyright and denies us the revenue that would be generated from DVD sales to your friends,
It's clearly a Joke, It goes so far beyond the pale, even the MPAA wouldn't dare to say this.

(I hope)

[jggimi]

While this story has been "filed" at bbspot you will not find anything about it at the MPAA's Press webpage (http://www.mpaa.org/PressReleases.asp). Blue_Misfit must have missed this About (http://www.bbspot.com/Legal/about.html) link, which states, in part:Called "the world's greatest tech humour site" by The Register, BBspot creates entertainment for the geekier side of the world. BBspot produces a variety of features like fake news stories satirizing the tech and political worlds....

[mitsubishi]

LOL :D
I thought so, but was slighlty worried that it wasn't

[linx05]

lol I've been seeing this link go around on IRC. A lot of people were spewing until they realised it was a joke.

[Blue_MiSfit]

LOL!!!! I got pwned....

Sorry guys, I knew I smelled a rat!

[jult]

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2006/11/home-theater-regulations.html
Brilliant! That amount they made up, the $500.000 fine per movie shown :D is so spot-on it's scary ;)