RIAA Wants To Fight Piracy Using…Spyware!

Do you like to feel like someone is watching you all the time? Would you sleep well, if you were to know that even your dreams are carefully recorded and analyzed? I am not talking about paranoia here, because if RIAA manages to turn their crazy thoughts into reality, things could become worse with every new idea they may have, and all for "preventing piracy"!


This was supposed to be a free world, but RIAA's president Carry Sherman would support filters and spyware-like programs "to prevent piracy", even though they would break the private space of many people that don't have a single bit of pirated information on their computers.

According to Sherman, solutions for preventing piracy are just around the corner, and "Filtering is one of them. It isn't perfect but it works and has lots of advantages.". Really? So what about privacy? Obviously, he also said filtering could only be targeted towards coprighted works, and operate anonymously and automatically. Still not good enough for me...

I won't get into the matter any further for now, but I would like to ask one question - if this automatic and anonymous system is broken, and the filter is not working as supposed to at that time, who's going to be held responsible for people having their private data exposed?