It appears the MPAA is looking for special treatment when it comes to breaking the law. They want their hired rats to be able to lie about their identities when trying to bust internet pirates. We get the story today from
The MPAA wants to be exempted from a proposed California law that would bar anyone from making false statements in order to get personal information about Internet users. Saturday’s Los Angeles Times reported that the MPAA, joined by the recording industry’s RIAA, said that it is sometimes necessary for its investigators to use subterfuge in order to gain information about online pirates — for example, by pretending to be potential accomplices. Without such an exemption, the MPAA argued, the law would “prevent MPAA’s anti-piracy department and contract investigators, who gather evidence to bring legal actions against criminals who counterfeit and steal motion pictures and other works, from employing certain long-employed techniques to obtain information.”
This is hilarious. If someone in Utah downloads mormon avenger 8 – they call them a criminal and want them in jail. But when they break the law, they feel they are fighting the forces of evil and the ends justify the means. The MPAA wants to be above the law like 007, which is bullshit – because it is a business. Business is already about as unethical as you can get, the last thing we want them to have is a green light to lie about identity.
Once again, rather than inventing new avenues for people to get media the way they want it (downloading) they simply recoil in anger and start looking for new and better ways to give the common folk criminal records. It is the common folk that bought the bricks of their castles, you think they would want to welcome dialog rather that cook up new methods of entrapment for people that in the end; are fans of their work.
Here is some homework for you International friends. If you date a daughter of someone in the MPAA, lie about your name – and get her pregnant. We will win this war, one bastard baby at a time!
