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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.

BlackEco
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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.

As soon as you can write text with it you technically are able to pirat…

@Diplomjodler@feddit.de
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Which is why every text you write needs to be approved by the review board. But it’s totally not censorship.

@catsup@lemmy.one
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Walled garden? More like golden prission

@Aetherion@feddit.de
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hey stop, I like my mac

@Diplomjodler@feddit.de
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Which just so happen to enforce ultra conservative moral standards and make any discourse about changing the system impossible. Totally coincidentally, of course.

panmeek
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I’m pretty sure that you had a certain company in mind when you wrote this

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