The ongoing and often extreme and overreaching battle against piracy within the audiovisual industry continues to escalate, with recent discussions focusing on devices capable of infringing intellectual property (IP) rights. As stated by Sheila Cassells, Executive VP at the Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Alliance (AAPA), companies in the entertainment sector should be wary of “any technological development” that could potentially grant access to pirated content.
From historical technology like the VCR to modern advances like AI, all technology holds inherent potentials for piracy.
At the center of these discussions are specific devices including set-top boxes, Firesticks, and Android apps, often condemned for enabling piracy. The AAPA’s somewhat radical standpoint is a call to outlaw the production, marketing, and distribution of any such device.
I’m just going to go outside and check the seedbox running on my Tesla roadster before I rip and upload a couple of episodes using the computer on my refrigerator and then post them from my Smart TV.
Checkmate copyright whores.
RIP my prescription glasses.
This is the stupidest thing I’ve read this year LOL.
So, everything
You could use a typewriter to copy any book, so they’re about as dangerous a technology as it gets.
You might use your brain to remember scenes from a movie. You ever heard someone recite movie dialogue? That’s copyright infringemet. Line up for your mandatory brain wipe.
Some of these Anti-piracy advocates already wiped their brains years ago lol.
Oops! Now pens and pencils, and computers and paints and such are outlawed because they can all be used to duplicate copyrighted materials and infringe upon IPs. 🤷🏻♂️
Also our brains are banned, too, since we use them to plan and take actions to infringe on IP.
won’t they have no one to sell to at that point
The AAPA’s somewhat radical standpoint is a call to outlaw the production, marketing, and distribution of any such device.
That’s not “somewhat radical”, it’s absolutist insanity. They want full control of everyone, so they can extract maximum profit, individuality and freedom be damned.
Maybe instead of trying to blame the tools, why don’t we blame the system instead?
Copyright shouldn’t be a thing in the 21th century.
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This is like those sci-fi settings where they banned AI because it tried to destroy humanity or something except instead they banned turing machines because it hurt the feelings of rich people.
What? Are they gonna ban every device ever
And replace them with walled-garden devices that don’t allow you to do anything besides a restricted set of uses defined by manufactures and right holders.
I’m pretty sure that you had a certain company in mind when you wrote this
As soon as you can write text with it you technically are able to pirat…
Which is why every text you write needs to be approved by the review board. But it’s totally not censorship.
Walled garden? More like golden prission
hey stop, I like my mac
Which just so happen to enforce ultra conservative moral standards and make any discourse about changing the system impossible. Totally coincidentally, of course.
They are probably so out of touch that they might just ban the sale of DVD burners lol
Well that’s stupid. I could infringe IP by carving a gloved mouse on a stone tablet. Are you gonna ban stone tablets? And hands? Jesus, Sheila, get a grip.
They are going to feel pretty damn stupid when nobody can buy/rent/watch/listen to their content and products…
Because, ya know… any product which can play any form of media, has the potential to infringe on IP…
I say, give them EXACTLY what they want. Give them, a week or two with zero profits, and see how quickly they change their tune.
By that logic pencils are banned since you can plagiarize copyrighted text with them. Can’t teach kids to write, because writing is a tool of piracy.
Don’t forget that you are not allowed to talk, since you might retell a licensed work.
Everyone should also be lobotomized so they cant have illegal copies of intellectual property in their head either
Please don’t give them ideas
This might be the dumbest shit I’ve heard in a while.
You’d better ban fingers too.
And all kinds of cameras and recording devices.
Laptops. Computers. Smart TVs. Ban it all. We’ll play with a hoop and a stick and be happy.
Oh no but you might use a stick to draw a copyrighted work in the sand!
Wow. You mean people might gave to read actual books for entertainment?
If by some miracle the legal establishment takes this schmuck seriously, it is the end of the entertainment industry.
