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.
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.
Sounds like she needs to go off grid completely because clearly she doesn’t understand that a large percentage of the world is made up of tech. Might as well ban her phone, laptop, television, vehicle, etc. Let her become a tree fairy.
Don’t these pirates know that their illegal schemes to make unauthorized copies and recordings of things causes EUR 3.19 trillion in financial damage to rights owners every year? It seems they will never learn, so we will need new laws. Mandatory client-side scanning for copyrighted material must be built in to all cameras and phones, or our whole economy will surely collapse.
This is how they do it though. “We’re going to ban everything!” Some months later 10 things are banned. Regular people “Whew! Well at least they only banned 10 things and not everything. We’re so lucky!”.
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.
Which just so happen to enforce ultra conservative moral standards and make any discourse about changing the system impossible. Totally coincidentally, of course.
Ahh ‘technological development’. I’ve been to the museum and learned how paper is made. And how ballpoint pens are made. Would that constitute technology or are we allowed to use pens and paper?
But the linked interview within the linked article mainly talks about IPTV and video streaming. I think this clickbaity title is taking things out of context.
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.
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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.
Sounds like she needs to go off grid completely because clearly she doesn’t understand that a large percentage of the world is made up of tech. Might as well ban her phone, laptop, television, vehicle, etc. Let her become a tree fairy.
She should start by banning her eyes.
Not technology, though. They can only ban your glasses.
Don’t these pirates know that their illegal schemes to make unauthorized copies and recordings of things causes EUR 3.19 trillion in financial damage to rights owners every year? It seems they will never learn, so we will need new laws. Mandatory client-side scanning for copyrighted material must be built in to all cameras and phones, or our whole economy will surely collapse.
Talk about a privacy nightmare. No matter your stance on piracy, this is the most dystopian answer you could have given.
No damage has been made as nothing of value has been lost.
Judging by the downvotes, I guess not many people can sense sarcasm here.
Guess people really do need the /s. Even on obvious comments like this.
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I’m gonna pirate you. Right after I finish pirating No Mans Sky.
That’s literally everything. Every. Single. Thing. What an idiot.
This is how they do it though. “We’re going to ban everything!” Some months later 10 things are banned. Regular people “Whew! Well at least they only banned 10 things and not everything. We’re so lucky!”.
Yup. And the masses eat it up like the good little herd they are.
Sand must also be illegal, since we can technically write in sand, which could be used for copyright infringement. What a fucking idiot.
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.
Which just so happen to enforce ultra conservative moral standards and make any discourse about changing the system impossible. Totally coincidentally, of course.
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
I’m pretty sure that you had a certain company in mind when you wrote this
They are probably so out of touch that they might just ban the sale of DVD burners lol
I’ve got a better idea, let’s just ban human beings!
Start with the person who proposed this idea.
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.
Please don’t give them ideas
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
Time to ban all computing devices.
Damn, well it’s been fun using digital electronics everyone
They’re coming for the analog electronics next.
I have no plans to stop, this will be difficult if not impossible to enforce.
Scofflaw! Scofflaw I say!
Lol.
Lmao, even.
maybe even roflmao
Ahh ‘technological development’. I’ve been to the museum and learned how paper is made. And how ballpoint pens are made. Would that constitute technology or are we allowed to use pens and paper?
But the linked interview within the linked article mainly talks about IPTV and video streaming. I think this clickbaity title is taking things out of context.
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!
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.
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.