MASantangelo
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join:2004-07-19
Pittstown, NJ
| How do they differentiate?
but instead was a software application that scanned a user's PC and reported back any pirated content to the MPAA. How do they differentiate between illegally pirated content, my legitimate backups of my owned movies, and non-mpaa content? My guess is that it doesn't. It probably scans for mp3, mpg, avi, etc etc and calls back saying you have x files with names. The MPAA probably doesn't even look at the names, they have x things they think they can go after you for.
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RayW
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join:2001-09-01
Layton, UT
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| said by MASantangelo  : but instead was a software application that scanned a user's PC and reported back any pirated content to the MPAA. How do they differentiate between illegally pirated content, my legitimate backups of my owned movies, and non-mpaa content? My guess is that it doesn't. It probably scans for mp3, mpg, avi, etc etc and calls back saying you have x files with names. The MPAA probably doesn't even look at the names, they have x things they think they can go after you for. -_- According to the MPAA, if you do anything other than play the DVD in one player in one spot, you are suspected of 'piracy', (and 'piracy' is in quotes because the MPAA changes the definition to whatever they want). If they could, the first time you played the DVD it would then be ONLY playable in that player. That way you could not loan it out, trade, resell, or otherwise treat it as yours.
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boober321
join:2003-07-15
Milwaukee, WI | They tried that, but it didn't fly with consumers... If they could get together on it, I wouldn't doubt they'd do it... |
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RayW
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Layton, UT
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| A neighbor of mine who is in the business (retailer/producer) told me that his take on what has been said in various industry meetings is that given a chance, the people who control the system would have all media tied to one player - no sharing, no trading, no mobility, no rights (for the consumer). The region coding was probably suppose to be the first step in that direction.
But then again, he has had kids walk into the store and brag that it is their turn to buy the disk to copy for a trading club of 20 or more people. So there are two sides to the story. I am not against copying music to share with friends, that is one way music gets spread and other people might get interested in buying other pieces of that artist(s) (a significant percentage of my music is because someone gave me a copy of something and I liked it enough to go buy other related pieces), but wholesale deliberate and planned theft is a different story.
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