MySpace, MTV cast lot with Auditude: Who will follow?

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While it somewhat promising to perhaps keep websites free from big media suits against them for user's upload content, it troubles me. Not the fact that MySpace and MTV are using it, but who else will use it in the future? AT&T was in the process of trying to block possible pirated content by fingerprinting audio and video content. Not sure if they are still thinking about that. To me though, it's troublesome.
What happens if more and more companies are allowed to monitor your activities on the net and modify and disrupt your data? It's no big deal if a company uses such technology on their own website to deal with uploaded content that could possibly copyright infringing, but where will it go? Media companies are already suing site owners for user uploaded content, forcing them to adopt such technologies as these. Where will it go? If media companies are allowed to continue to violate people's rights in an attempt to protect and grow their money piles there's only one place I can see this going, and you won't see any clouds or harps.
Well not clouds in the traditional sense. If this combines with the "cloud" dream of certain companies, it could possibly be utterly frightening. Suppose that it gets to the point that all of your data is backed up and only a portion is cached on a local hard drive. Now suppose you are about to go on a long flight to Asia for a business trip. Your netbook doesn't have an optical drive, but you want to watch that movie you just bought on your flight over, and maybe another on your way back. So you convert it and put it on the hard drive of your laptop, and pack for your trip. When you get back though, you find a bill in your mailbox, for the price of a digital copy of the movie you actually own on DVD. You call and complain, saying you own the movie. They don't care. You refuse to pay. It goes on your credit statement.
I don't think such a situation is that far off unless privacy rights are enforced as technology increases and media's fears go with it.

Posted by: geekyone   Posted on: 11/03/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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