eff.org — The MPAA and RIAA are pushing in Washington for new legal powers: to enforce the broadcast flag, impose controls on digital radio and to block the analog hole. EFF summarizes their effects in this two minute cartoon -- don't forget to click on the characters at the end to send your letters to Congress.
Jun 14, 2006 View in Crawl 4
sbovisjb1Jun 17, 2006
Hmmm the onion routing system they provide is alright, but nothing beats SSL connections bouncing off remote computers. Anyways Onion routing system is good for the non-technologically inclined.
moocatJun 17, 2006
Nope, but anyone who actually understands what this would allow companies to do in return for what type of services people, in reality, would receive, could pretty easily understand it amounts to nothing more than fatter wallets for a select few.
jferraroJun 17, 2006
I wrote congressman Mark Green (WI resident) asking him to support Net Neutrality and he wrote me back saying that he could not support the Internet Freedom and Nondiscrimination Act with a list of reasons why he could not. Even though he did not support my opinion I'm glad to see that he is willing to keep an open dialog about the issue. It gives me a reason to do research to support my arguments. Also it proves that congress does respond to the people. Get involved and write to your congressman. It does make a difference!
pauldonnellyJun 18, 2006
Nice idea, but what a horrible, horrible, cartoon.
juhazJun 18, 2006
These laws do nothing to thwart "piracy", they're solely targeted at legitimate users, and the *AA know it.Distributing the content is already illegal, do you really think people who do it are going to stop because now they're violating two laws instead of one? In addition, it only takes one person to break them, and no matter how many insane laws you pile up, or how hard you make it, there will always be that one person. Probably it's not even illegal for that one person, because there's a whole world out here, and the content industry hasn't yet managed to bribe every lawmaker on it.
saskboyJun 18, 2006
It was possibly a form letter, which wouldn't bet so much open dialogue, as a list of talking points from AT&T.
acebrickmanJul 26, 2007
<a class="user" href="http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/Deep-packet-inspection-meets-net-neutrality.ars">http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/Deep-packet-inspection-meets-net-neutrality.ars</a>heh- actually, i just googled EFF's position on net neutrality.. I'm sure this sums it all up