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MPAA offers illegal file checker
geeknewz.com — The US industry grouping the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is adding a new weapon in its fight against piracy. It is offering a free program to parents who might be worried that their children are illegally downloading copyrighted content.
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- prh99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's just to bad it doesn't distinguish between legally purchased content, pirated content, and/or user created content. You can use your OS search functionality and get the same result without having to install the MPAA's crap software.
- TheSeintrix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Useless...
- ORBIT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1From reports I heard, it simply did a search for common file types. like .avi or .mpg etc... Returning things that are apart of applications and things included with the OS...
- Ruckgesicht, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Aparantly all the music that got installed with "The Sims", "The Sims 2" and "Morrowind" are teh illegal! Oh noes! They better watch out fore they get sue'd.
- tidejwe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is stupid, even if it was able to distinguish between legal downloads and illegal ones, why would you trust their program? For all we know it sends messages back to the RIAA everytime it finds an .mp3 and so even though parents are trying to use it to help keep their computer clean and know what's going on, the riaa will probably sue them for using it because it actually found illegal songs. You just can't win.
- loker269, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1yeah I love how it checks for files over a certain size with a certain extension and nothing else....
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