TorrentFreak has posted a allegedly leaked presentation by the RIAA's arch advocate that says that it dedicated SOPA and PIPA even admitting it knew the censorship legislation wouldn't be able adjoin music piracy. Is the RIAA for absolute or are they just accoutrement their asses, and what does it beggarly for your abandon traveling forward?
Massive Internet protests affected the RIAA's puppets in Washington to aback down from SOPA and PIPA, carrying a aloft draft the the RIAA's cause adjoin Internet freedom. The leaked presentation alleged "U.S. Absorb Alert Arrangement and Added Voluntary Initiatives" was accustomed in April to industry bigwigs, and it finds RIAA Deputy General Counsel Victoria Sheckler backpeddling from the organization's aldermanic attacks on piracy. Just attending at this slide. How pathetic:
In added words, the presentation all but admits what opponents of SOPA and PIPA knew all along; that the legislation would be useless. Now remember, this legislation jeopardized chargeless accent on the Internet. If this is posturing, it's an infuriating stance. It's extraordinary that the RIAA would abutment legislation that so aboveboard threatened your rights for nothing, but it's the adverse truth.
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Since legislating censorship didn't work, the RIAA has pivoted aback to the Absorb Alert System, an anti-privacy activity it's been advancing with ISPs. The new activity was assuredly agreed aloft endure summer afterwards years of debate. It was declared to barrage this month, but it's been indefinitely delayed because all of the stakeholders—you aren't one of them, by the way—can't accede on how to apparatus it. Under the system, Internet users would be absolute by a six bang system. The RIAA (or MPAA) would abide complaints of contravention to ISPs on account of absorb holders, afterwards which the ISPs chase up with users application what's alleged "graduated response." In short, infringers are warned and warned afresh afore anyone launches any cogent acknowledged action. The emphasis, the RIAA says, is on education. Bullshit.
You should be just as afraid about this ISP ecology as you were about SOPA and PIPA. Instead of blowing the government into akin your freedom, the RIAA is blowing the ISPs into creating an Internet assistant accompaniment to alarm you into acquiescence with whatever it wants. As the RIAA credibility out in the accelerate above, the alone affair legislation would accept accept able is added policing by ISPs. With the Absorb Alert Arrangement it's accident anyway. It's unprecedented. And for what? There's no affirmation it'll work. The RIAA says it will, but afterwards this aperture do you absolutely wish to yield its chat for it? [TorrentFreak via ITWorld via Slashdot]
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